Hello all,

I am Pratik Singhal, a 3rd year undergraduate student studying Computer Science studying in BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus, India. 

I want to pursue the project NTFS Driver Improvement project as a part of Google summer of code 2016. 

I have previously participated in Google summer of Code 2015 for FreeBSD operating system and have done some kernel hacking before.(https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2015/CubieBoardSupport)

I have also made a mini operating system of my own. 

I am sure, that the experience I gained while previously for FreeBSD  will certainly help me in understanding the ReactOS code base quickly which will be useful for the project.  I don't have any significant experience on working with file systems before, but I am confident that with some guidance from fellow developers  I will be able to learn new things which will help in  completion of the project.  Also, I haven't had any access to Windows source code , so that shouldn't be a problem.

We will have to figure out concrete goals of the project, full term and mid term deliverable and a plan for completion of project, if it is to be selected for Google summer of Code.

It'll be great if somebody, could mentor me for this project.

Thanks,

Pratik Singhal