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Hello,</div>
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<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>We are a group of students that are currently pursuing our undergraduate degrees in Computer Science from Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT), Maharashtra, India. We will be graduating in June 2015 and are currently in our final year. For our final year B.E project we have selected the domain as Systems and would be very interested in working in the field of journalling file systems, which is where we stumbled upon XFS.</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0cm"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:13px"> Over the past few weeks we have been extensively studying the various features and working principles which has allowed this filesystem to prosper. It will be a great learning opportunity for us to work with XFS and in turn work with you. As per given on the</span></font><u style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:13px"> </u><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:13px"><u><a href="http://xfs.org/" target="_blank">http://xfs.org/</a></u> website for contributions, we would appreciate if you could steer us towards the direction of choosing the right topic and working towards culminating a project in the same, which would be helpful for the community.</span></font></div>
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1) Group name: A-DRS</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:13px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px">
It is our constant belief that inquisitiveness is the best teacher. For each one of us, coming together as a group has allowed us to begin the journey of learning and innovating. We have been working together since December 2012 and have completed numerous projects in our college and for organizations, some of which you can view at out GitHub account link : ( <a href="https://github.com/a-drs?tab=contributions&from=2014-07-18" target="_blank">https://github.com/a-drs?tab=contributions&from=2014-07-18</a> ). </div>
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2) Group members:</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:13px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Amey Ruikar ( <a href="mailto:ameyruikar@yahoo.com" target="_blank">ameyruikar@yahoo.com</a> , <a href="http://in.linkedin.com/pub/amey-ruikar/9a/315/1b7/" target="_blank">in.linkedin.com/pub/amey-ruikar/9a/315/1b7/</a> )</div>
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</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:19px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0cm"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:13px"> Somdeep Dey (<a href="mailto:somdeepdey10@gmail.com" target="_blank">somdeepdey10@gmail.com</a> , <a href="http://in.linkedin.com/pub/somdeep-dey/a0" target="_blank">in.linkedin.com/pub/somdeep-dey/a0</a></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:13px">/124/bb7/)</span></div>
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3) We have two mentors working with us, who will be guiding us throughout the process</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:13px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Nafisa Mandliwala (<a href="mailto:nafisa.madliwala@gmail.com" target="_blank">nafisa.madliwala@gmail.com</a>)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:13px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Swapnil Pimpale (<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:pimplae.swapnil@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(25,106,212)" target="_blank">pimplae.swapnil@gmail.com</a>)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:13px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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We would love to hear from about any ideas that you see fit for us to pursue and which are feasible in the specified time frame. Hoping to hear from you soon, and thanking you in anticipation.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanking you,</div>
<div>A-DRS.</div></div>
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