<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello community,<div><div dir="auto">I hope you are doing well in these hard times.</div></div><div dir="auto"><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4">I want to work on 'Augment PostGIS 3.2 with GIST support added to PG14' idea within the GSoC 2021.</font></pre></div>I. Me:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div>I am Ayoub FATIHI, I am
moroccan ,I was born in 1999.</div></div><div><div>I am a student at the Geomatics and Surveying Engineering Department in IAV Hassan ii University,Rabat, Morocco.</div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>I am interested in : Mathematics, especially algebra, algorithms, and recently (3 years ago) computer science. And I feel true joy when I solve problems.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div>I have got a chance to study Spatial databases using psql and extending it by postgis to unlock the spatial capabilities.</div></div></blockquote><div><div><br></div><div>II. Motivation:</div></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div>I have always been like a phoenix, after hard times I rise from ashes to close another cycle. But in the middle of this pandemic, I started to metamorphose to a hydra, but more interestingly to a tree. Yes, like a tree, even after the darkest moment, after rains without stop and strong winds that break some of its branches, IT blossoms and gives fruits. I have witnessed this cycle from my bedroom's window for one year,I am trying to mimic this cycle and apply it to my everyday life, and to learn new things to unlock my full potential, and produce some very sweet fruits.</div></div><div><div>One way of accomplishing that is to join communities, especially those of open sources. First I was thinking about Python because I am familiar with it, but while searching I found out about GSoC and I dug deeper and then I found about this project. And here I am!
Hyper-motivated, I am ready to take this challenge.
</div></div><br clear="all"></blockquote><div>III. Experience in coding:</div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>+++Scientific computation with Matlab (is it really coding?)</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>+++Python (plus
other libraries: numpy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn)</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>++ Visual Basic <br></div><div><br></div></blockquote>IV. Investment:</div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>I have a fertile mind and I am ready to sow it.</div></blockquote></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>From now to finals (scheduled end June) I will allocate for this project and getting ready for it between 10 and 12 hours a week. Then after the finals from 20 to 36 hours a week.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>I am planning to grasp some notions of computer science that will help learn C easily, then I will learn C.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>In a second phase I will dig deeper in the implementation of postgis with postgresql, and how they work behind the scenes. ( I hope I will be here before mid may, is it doable?)</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">In a third phase I am willing to tackle the problem in hand(optimizing the creation of gist index for spatial data).<br>And Hooray !<br><br></blockquote>This is going long. I will stop here, please feel free to ask me if you have questions.<br><b><font size="4">AM I UP TO TAKE THIS CHALLENGE ?</font></b></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">FATIHI Ayoub </div></div></div></div></div></div></div>