application for join Project 1. Scientific axes for FURY in GSoC 2023

[Clarkszw]

Hi mentors in FURY,

My name is Zhiwen Shi, you can call me Clark. I am so excited to find FURY in GSoC 2023 and can’t wait to talk to you about the project and possibilities we could do in this summer.

Let me give a brief about myself: I am now living in Denmark with my wife and two little kids. I graduated from the University of Copenhagen as a master of computational chemistry. I have a strong interest in Cloud Technology and the implementation of HPC with could solutions. Among these solutions, there are many new and popular python based scientific packages involved, fx OpenMM, PySCF. These open source packages motivate me to get know more about the software engineering of a python package. I am seeking a good start up project for myself to get on board.

I think FURY with GSoC will be a great match for me: 1. Python based. 2. New contributor friendly. 3. With Mentor. 4. Chemistry related. 5. related with conda forge.

I have read the ‘expectations’ page, here is my short answer for them:

• 40 hours/week => I take this as a full time project. So I have the commitment to it.
• Self-motivation and steady schedule => I am self-motivated and I am good at it. I have two kids to take care, so I am serious about how to use my time. This is what I love to do. I will spend good time with mentor to make a good plan for the whole project and break the plan down to every week, everyday. We will together make the most out of it :)
• Frequent communication with mentor => We will have a good relationship during the project. The mentor is the leader and I am the runner. Teamwork works. We will also make up a plan about the communication, how often, via what, how about the regular communication, how about the urgent? etc..
• Version control => I am new to a big "hands on" project, but I am not new to use ‘git’. I am aware of the importance of this tool in the project.
• Community => I’d love to join the community of FURY and I think it is spirit of the open source project. I have asked a lot and hopefully answer a lot in the near future.
• Design documents => I will work out this with my mentor and maintain it. It will be a memorable documentation of the project.

In the past week, I have gone through the tutorials, examples, demos on the website. I redo them locally to get familiar with the library.
I have run the tests several times and understand how to run a single test. I am able to write Pytest during the development.
I have tried to do some PR, including updating the deprecated function get_data() to get_fdata() in several files, add instructions in "Getting started" web page. I am currently checking the "issues" that good for the beginner for more practice.

Regarding the project that I am interested, I would like to start with "Scientific axes for FURY” with mentors @filipinascimento and @skoudoro. I hope I can hear from you soon, either here or in the discord:)

That’s all I want to say to express my excitement. Have a lovely weekend :)

Best Wishes
Zhiwen (Clark)