Questions About Flashrom Of Gsoc

[Hui Xiang]

Dear Sir/Madam,
I hope you are well today when you receive this email. My name is Hui Xiang, and I am a University of Manchester Electrical and Electronic Engineering student. This summer, I would like to join Google Summer of Code. The Flashrom Project caught my eyes after I went through all the projects of GSoC.
In my school project, I am now working on the NUCLEO-F401RE(STM32). I can programme in C and C++, as well as assembly language. From the file of GSoC project ideas, I really like the idea of "Design and implement new CLI based on libflashrom and enhance the API as needed". For the Flashrom project, I would like to make contributions on some API. What resources can I use to learn more about it? What skills do I need to improve to get accepted from Flashrom? Thank you for looking into this for me.
Best Regards,
Hui

[Anastasia Klimchuk]

Hello Hui,

Nice to meet you! Great to know that you are interested to work with us
this Summer of Code!

It is very good that you looked into the list of project ideas and are
interested in one of them, and your experience in C is very relevant.
> What resources can I use to learn more about it?

First thing, please have a read of our Contributor Guidelines
https://www.flashrom.org/GSoC especially the “Contributor commitments &
requirements” section, and see if you can gradually start with p.1 “Prior
to project acceptance, you need to demonstrate that you can work with the
flashrom codebase”. It is important that you complete all steps from 1 to 5.
Definitely tell us how it goes! You can reply to this email, tell us what
steps you did successfully, or if not, what are the problems.

Also look into the “How to contact us” section, join our IRC channel and
say hello! :)

Just in case, if you haven’t read these already, here are official
guidelines for gsoc program:
https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/
Rules https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/rules (at least check p.7 from
here)
> What skills do I need to improve to get accepted from Flashrom?

For the project you are interested in, good knowledge of C language is a
critical skill.

Thank you!
Anastasia.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 1:13 AM Hui Xiang  wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> I hope you are well today when you receive this email. My name is Hui
> Xiang, and I am a University of Manchester Electrical and Electronic
> Engineering student. This summer, I would like to join Google Summer of
> Code. The Flashrom Project caught my eyes after I went through all the
> projects of GSoC.
>
> In my school project, I am now working on the NUCLEO-F401RE(STM32). I can
> programme in C and C++, as well as assembly language. From the file of GSoC
> project ideas, I really like the idea of “Design and implement new CLI
> based on libflashrom and enhance the API as needed”. For the Flashrom
> project, I would like to make contributions on some API. What resources can
> I use to learn more about it? What skills do I need to improve to get
> accepted from Flashrom? Thank you for looking into this for me.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Hui
>
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