From: William Woodruff <william@...>
Date: 2015-03-28T15:53:50-04:00
Subject: [ruby-core:68670] Introductions and GSoC Proposal

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Hello everybody!

My name is William Woodruff. I'm a Google Summer of Code applicant,
and I'm excited to work on the MRI.

In particular, I'm very interested in implementing a type-switcher in
the Ruby runtime, something that can dynamically change the
representation of a program's data to better suit its characteristics.
I'm also looking forward to adding new data structures to the runtime
to make list and tree programming more efficient and native to MRI
itself.

For a more detailed list of ideas, I'm attaching my proposal
(proposal.txt) as a potential timeline (timeline.txt) for review.

If there are any developers who would be willing to mentor and advise me
through this process, I would be extremely grateful for any information
or advice they could give me.

I'm very open to new ideas, suggestions, and criticisms so please send
my way :).

Thanks,
William Woodruff (william@tuffbizz.com)

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