Hello everyone.
I'm Niebieski from freenode.

I like Free Software and thus believe that a free software OS that is binary compatible with Windows will be huge contribution to the computing world.
When I saw ReactOS on the orgs list in GSoC I totally considered checking the possibility of working with you guys.

I'm interested on RAPPS and the GUI installer. Why ?

It's clear that it's easy to install Windows because of the GUI installer, is it the easiest OS installer ever ?
If you insert a bootable Windows media and kept pressing ENTER, you will probably end up with an installed system.

So I think the GUI installer is a big step into ease of use.
For RAPPS, it's essential utility. Lets you install apps without searching their names one by one on a search engine. or even give me a script that installs my favourite tools ? It's also a good way to discover new good software, specially if it's GPL software.
Note that I'm talking about end-user point of view.

I've seen the document made by Amine Khaldi about RAPPS.

I've tried to get familiar with the WIN32 API a couple of years ago. Why ? because I like low level GUI stuff and then tried out GTK and Qt when I used Linux. I found out about Charles Petzold's book.

I like C that's why I liked WIN32 API at first. The latest code I wrote was mainly academic assignments, A Caesar cipher implementation and a multi-threaded sorting program using pthread library.

Note that I didn't develop something serious using WIN32 API I just read some tutorials but didn't build something. I know handles, WinMain and these basic stuff.

so honestly I don't have any 'real' development experience. but I've tried to contribute to several open source orgs.