Introducing MySelf to the Community

[Kavach Dheer]

Greetings! I'm excited to introduce myself to this community. Presently, I'm immersed in my PhD studies focused on Recommendation Systems. While I haven't yet engaged in Open Source Projects, I'm eager to become an active member of this community and contribute my skills.
I am also attaching my LinkedIn  and mt website if somebody wants to connect - 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kavach-dheer-23a701200/
https://22kavachdheer.wixsite.com/research

Kind Regards

Kavach Dheer

PhD Candidate

University of Galway, School of Computer Science

SFI d-real

[Project Manager MDAnalysis]

Hi Kavach,

Welcome to MDAnalysis, and thank you for expressing your interest in the project! Please note that while we will likely apply for the GSoC 2024 program, it is not guaranteed that we will be selected by Google as an organization. No matter what happens, we of course welcome you to start learning MDAnalysis and contributing outside of GSoC!

MDAnalysis is a Python package for analyzing molecular simulations data. We have a few introductory videos that can give you an idea of what problems MDAnalysis is solving. If you haven't used MDAnalysis before, the best way to get started is to get your hands dirty following the MDAnalysis User Guide. We suggest starting with installing the MDAnalysis package and going through the Quick Start Guide. Other sections of the User Guide go into many more details about the different capabilities of MDAnalysis. 

Once you are a bit familiar with the MDAnalysis package, you can look at the sections of the User Guide explaining how to contribute. There are detailed explanations on how to set up a developer environment and how to contribute to the MDAnalysis codebase. This is a great starting point for contributing to MDAnalysis and trying to solve some of the open issues.

Hopefully this will help you get started, but please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. You can post on the MDAnalysis discussion (for usage-based questions) or developer (for questions about contributing) mailing lists. We also have a Discord server (join using this invite link) to chat with other MDAnalysis users and developers. 

We look forward to your contribution.

All the best,
Jenna