<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Dear community members,</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">I am Ashutosh Mitra from India. I am pursuing a masters in
Geoinformatics from CSRE, IIT Bombay. I have had exposure to ArcGIS, GRASS GIS,
spatial database, QGIS, etc. in the past. Also, I have done projects in GIS for
making an AR app for COVID19 to detect the number of cases in a particular
direction. And another project for detecting straight lines in an image using
Hough Transform. Currently, I am studying courses like GIS and Remote sensing
applications to hydrocarbon and mineral exploration.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">I am very much interested in contributing to the open-source community
as it will help to improve my skills, build connections and learn new things. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Thus, I would like to contribute to OSGEO in Google Summer of Code 2021
for the project </span></p>

<p class="gmail-msolistparagraph" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:106%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:106%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal"></span><span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:106%">        
</span></span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:106%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">GRASS GUI: Single window layout</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:106%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Link to my projects: </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://github.com/Ashutoshmitra/Hough_Transform" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span lang="EN-US">https://github.com/Ashutoshmitra/Hough_Transform</span></a></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://github.com/Ashutoshmitra/AR-app-for-COVID19" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span lang="EN-US">https://github.com/Ashutoshmitra/AR-app-for-COVID19</span></a></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I would be
grateful if I could get direction to proceed from your side. </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Regards </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ashutosh Mitra</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">(IITB, India)</p></div>