Symmetry Autumn of Code

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On Sunday, 22 July 2018 at 16:33:10 UTC, Zheng (Vic) Luo wrote:
> I'm interested in the "Graphics library for resource 
> constrained embedded systems" project and have some spare time 
> this autumn, but I have some questions:
> - Does this project aim at creating a hardware-agnostic 
> rasterizer supporting a few primitives like https://skia.org/ 
> or implementing a full GUI library like emWin rendering widget 
> and handling I/O events such as mouse? The latter one sounds a 
> little bit challenging to finish in four months

I can't say too much about this as I'm not that familiar with the 
proposed project, but here's what I can say: it's just a 
suggestion. It's definition isn't set in stone and is just a 
pointer to a problem to get you started.
For more pointers and discussion, I recommend to ping Mike 
(https://github.com/JinShil) as IIRC he was the one who proposed 
this project and could also be a potential mentor.
(and I think the aim is sth. to sth. akin to Skia)

> - In the past year I primarily wrote C++ and don't have much 
> experiences with production-level D programming, can I get 
> involved into this program?

Yes. Applicants aren't expected to be D experts. Also sound 
experience in C++ will definitely help you (especially for such a 
low-level project).
AFAICT a sound proposal and showing that you are serious about 
the project/commitment is more important than your D history.
There are a few posts in the D blog about the GSoC in 2016 
(https://dlang.org/blog/category/gsoc) which provide a few more 
insights, but in short none of the students from GSoC 2016 were 
well-known member of the D community before the GSoC.