Zach Breit (Nov 28 2016 at 17:58): Zach Breit (Nov 28 2016 at 17:58):Hey guys! I thought I'd start this topic so that we can get to know everyone involved in CodeIn. I guess I'll start out: my name is Zach Breit, and I'm a high schooler from NJ. I program for my robotics team and for fun. Oh yeah – I'm also really excited for CodeIn 
Sonali Gupta (Nov 28 2016 at 18:00):Hello @Zach Breit Welcome to the project.
Tim Abbott (Nov 28 2016 at 18:00):Cool, welcome!
Steve Howell (showell) (Nov 28 2016 at 18:01):Hi, my name is Steve, and I'm one of the mentors. I grew up in Maryland and currently live in California.
Kevin Zeledon (Nov 28 2016 at 20:00):Hello everyone! I'm Kevin from Costa Rica, I'm excited too for Code In, as @Zach Breit 
I was waiting for it all the year! Talking about me, I like programming a lot, I do it in my free times and for the robotics team of my school too. I think I'm going to focus a lot on Zulip's tasks, so, I'm looking forward to know everyone! Glad to meet you!
Tim Abbott (Nov 28 2016 at 20:00):Welcome @Kevin Zeledon, great to meet you!
Zach Breit (Nov 28 2016 at 20:01):Hey @Kevin Zeledon. Is your robotics team associated with FIRST?
Joy Chen (Nov 28 2016 at 20:01):What's up:D
Kevin Zeledon (Nov 28 2016 at 20:02):@Zach Breit Nope, we do LEGO Mindstorms robotics
Heidi Dong (Nov 28 2016 at 20:34):Hey guys I'm Heidi & I'm from California!
Kevin Zeledon (Nov 28 2016 at 20:35):Hi, Heidi!
Tim Abbott (Nov 28 2016 at 20:36):Welcome @Heidi Dong! I'm from California too :)
Joy Chen (Nov 28 2016 at 21:19):Hi @Heidi Dong!! I wish I was from CA :( too cold in IL
Robert Hönig (Nov 28 2016 at 22:16):Hi everyone :) I'm Robert Hönig from Germany, just as excited as everybody else! I'm involved in some national programming contests, but nothing comparable to this.
Tim Abbott (Nov 28 2016 at 22:17):Cool @Robert Hönig, welcome! I was actually involved in the USACO back when I was a student :)
Robert Hönig (Nov 28 2016 at 22:18):@Tim Abbott were you? wow, that is so cool! I am involved in the German national team for the IOI and we use to practice with USACO :D
Tim Abbott (Nov 28 2016 at 22:21):Yep, I got a silver medal at the IOI back in 2003 :)
Robert Hönig (Nov 28 2016 at 22:23):that's impressive! may I ask what you do for a living now? :)
Tim Abbott (Nov 28 2016 at 22:28):Working on Zulip! :)
I (as well as several other folks involved in the project) am working on a startup to provide Zulip hosting and commercial support, so that folks don't need to be a Linux expert to use Zulip :), and also to generate income we can use to fund a core Zulip development team. This is actually my 3rd startup; the previous ones were acquired by Oracle and Dropbox, respectively. The goal is to make it the case that there can be a significant team working on the Zulip open source project for a living :)
Kevin Riggle (Nov 29 2016 at 01:06):Howdy folks. My name's Kevin, I'm another mentor. We used Zulip at a previous job of mine, and I'm a friend of Tim's from school, so I'm helping out. :)
Kevin Riggle (Nov 29 2016 at 01:06):(I'm from Boston.)
Steve Howell (showell) (Nov 29 2016 at 01:08):Cool! Are you interested in helping with a few tasks tonight?
Kevin Riggle (Nov 29 2016 at 01:09):I can!
Kevin Riggle (Nov 29 2016 at 01:09):(Still catching up on the day's traffic.)
Steve Howell (showell) (Nov 29 2016 at 01:11):So one of the challenges is that the GCI app is incredibly slow, and some of us don't seem to be able to filter tasks through the UI, but you can eventually find tasks in "Submitted" state.
Steve Howell (showell) (Nov 29 2016 at 01:12):We can help you out with that more on #GCI mentors
Kevin Riggle (Nov 29 2016 at 01:12):-> there
『Ａlex🍕Huang』 (Nov 29 2016 at 06:43):Hi, I'm Alex, I'm from Australia, and I'm here to do stuff I guess
Arpith Siromoney (Nov 29 2016 at 06:43):welcome @Alex Huang :)
Vaibhav Sagar (Nov 29 2016 at 06:44):I'm from Australia too @Alex Huang , how ya going?
『Ａlex🍕Huang』 (Nov 29 2016 at 07:00):Hi, I'm Alex too but I discovered the change name function.
Kevin Riggle (Nov 29 2016 at 07:01):We're in for 40 days of people named '-- DROP TABLE users;' and '
' bopping around, aren't we.
:D
『Ａlex🍕Huang』 (Nov 29 2016 at 07:02):omg yes
『Ａlex🍕Huang』 (Nov 29 2016 at 07:03):We're in for 40 days of people named '-- DROP TABLE users;' and '' bopping around, aren't we.
^ this one needs to be added to the topic or pinned
Pike D. (Nov 29 2016 at 07:05):^
『Ａlex🍕Huang』 (Nov 29 2016 at 07:10):49 days actually! I did the math!
Callum (Nov 29 2016 at 21:47):Hello! I'm a person from London who will probably help in some way, not exactly sure how yet
Callum (Nov 29 2016 at 21:47)::D
Steve Howell (showell) (Nov 29 2016 at 21:51):Welcome!
Roy Abouhamad (Nov 29 2016 at 22:15):Hi I'm Roy and I currently live in London. I am 16 years old and love coding and problem solving.
『Ａlex🍕Huang』 (Nov 30 2016 at 03:35):im pizza
『Ａlex🍕Huang』 (Nov 30 2016 at 03:36):im still pizza
Christie Koehler (Nov 30 2016 at 03:43):@Alex
Huang very creative!
Tim Abbott (Nov 30 2016 at 03:44):It's kinda cool that having pizza in your name works in Zulip :)
『Ａlex🍕Huang』 (Nov 30 2016 at 04:00):It's RIDICULOUSLY cool.
『Ａlex🍕Huang』 (Nov 30 2016 at 04:00):This is the best chat client.
『Ａlex🍕Huang』 (Nov 30 2016 at 04:01):i might just spend this entire code-in trying out what names work in this amazing client
Joy Chen (Nov 30 2016 at 04:02):try weird characters
Joy Chen (Nov 30 2016 at 04:04):ÀÂÙĄʦʢʖɰ
Joy Chen (Nov 30 2016 at 04:04):woops
『Ａlex🍕Huang』 (Nov 30 2016 at 04:05):testing
『Ａlex🍕Huang』 (Nov 30 2016 at 04:05):oh man, this actually works
『Ａlex🍕Huang』 (Nov 30 2016 at 04:05):you can use symbols in your name and it shows up asstuff` though
『Ａlex🍕Huang』 (Nov 30 2016 at 04:05):so you probably need to sanitize that
『Ａlex🍕Huang』 (Nov 30 2016 at 04:05):in faaact,. that could be a codein task
『Ａlex🍕Huang』 (Nov 30 2016 at 21:02):hi i'd just like to announce that I'M CODER
Joy Chen (Nov 30 2016 at 21:02):Hi alex
Pike D. (Nov 30 2016 at 22:39):Hey Alex! :D
Juan Verhook (aka Juanvulcano) (Dec 02 2016 at 22:36):Hi everyone, It's been a while since I joined the chat but haven't had time to introduce myself :) I´m Juan from Venezuela, this is my second GCI. I really appreciate the open source community, I´ve been able to learn a lot working with mentors so far
Zev Benjamin (Dec 02 2016 at 22:37):Welcome, Juan!
Zev Benjamin (Dec 02 2016 at 22:37):or perhaps I should say, "welcome back!"
Joy Chen (Dec 02 2016 at 22:40):Hi Juan! Cool to meet someone from Venezuela. Been trying to watch an old Venezuelan telenovela to improve my Spanish lately but I only understand half of it lol
Juan Verhook (aka Juanvulcano) (Dec 02 2016 at 22:45):Hahaha it doesn´t surprise me Joy, in Spanish we have a lot of colloquialisms so it might be hard understanding some words.
Juan Verhook (aka Juanvulcano) (Dec 02 2016 at 23:52):Testing :)
『Ａlex🍕Huang』 (Dec 03 2016 at 00:56):Hey, I'm going to be starting on the task to create a command+f hotkey. Would control+f be fine, as it's usually the default search hotkey?
Kevin Riggle (Dec 03 2016 at 04:04):It should be control-f on Windows and Linux, and command-f on Mac.
Kevin Riggle (Dec 03 2016 at 04:04):Whoops. Moving to #GCI general
Shawn Pereira (Dec 03 2016 at 05:05):Hello everyone. My name is Shawn and I'm from India. This is my second GCI. I wasn't actually planning on participating this year since I'm the 12th grade this year and I have a lot of exams to study for. But I was just looking through the organizations list and found Zulip a pretty amazing organization. I won't be able to do a lot of tasks but I want to do the best work I can.
Kevin Riggle (Dec 03 2016 at 05:23):Welcome @Shawn Pereira !
Kevin Riggle (Dec 03 2016 at 05:23):Glad to have you with us :)
Sumana Harihareswara (Dec 09 2016 at 22:32):I'm Sumana Harihareswara, a contractor who works on Zulip in community management, writing, and mentorship. I was away from Zulip work for much of the past few weeks, and you might see me around as a GCI mentor. I've written and spoken a lot about how to get better at contributing to open source projects -- a blog post I wrote that you might benefit from is https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2016/10/12/0 .
Patrick Grave (Dec 12 2016 at 02:35):Hello, I'm Patrick (yes my username is misleading) and I live in Australia. This is my second GCI and I have decided to participate this year because I love Open Source! Although I'm a little late, I'm looking forward to working with Zulip this year. (And if I accidentally say 'Tulip' in place of 'Zulip', you can blame my autocorrect)
Joshua Pan (Dec 12 2016 at 02:36):@JefftheBest you probably want to use your real name because it's easier for a mentor to help you and get your tasks approved.
Joy Chen (Dec 12 2016 at 02:41):@JefftheBest another participant from down under :O @Bickio O'Callahan is from New Zealand
Bickio O'Callahan (Dec 12 2016 at 02:43):Yeah! Welcome. I think that makes 3 of us from the southern hemisphere! @Rafid Aslam is from indonesia.
Yaay!
Niels Terwiesch (Dec 12 2016 at 02:47):Welcome to Zulip! @JefftheBest
Rafid Aslam (Dec 12 2016 at 03:35):Haha nice, welcome @JefftheBest !
Bernice Chen (Dec 22 2016 at 22:20):Hi, I'm Bernice and I'm from Texas; this is my first ever GCI and I have no idea what's going on XD. I have quite a bit of interest in programming, although I'd still call myself a beginner, since most of my coding lies in websites like Codecademy, Code Avengers, etc, so I'm pretty intimidated by most of the GCI tasks that I've seen.
Tim Abbott (Nov 28 2017 at 17:20):Welcome GCI students! Feel free to introduce yourselves here (it was a nice tradition that @Zach Breit started last year)!
Sivagiri Visakan (Nov 28 2017 at 17:24):Hey all ! I am Sivagiri :grinning: ! Excited to be participating in GCI . Hoping this will be a nice learning and a rewarding experience !
Robert Hönig (Nov 28 2017 at 17:25):Welcome @Sivagiri Visakan!
Sivagiri Visakan (Nov 28 2017 at 17:52):Thank you @Robert Hönig
Caroline Dikibo (Nov 28 2017 at 17:53):Hi! :wave: @Sivagiri Visakan
Robert Hönig (Nov 28 2017 at 21:15):I'm Robert, and I'll be working as a GCI mentor. I'm from Germany, currently living in the Czech Republic (UTC+1). Really looking forward to this year's GCI and working with you all :)
Peter Tone (Nov 30 2017 at 04:56):Hi everyone! I'm Peter, currently living in Peru (UTC-5), planning to study compsci in college, and excited to be contributing to open source :nerd_face:
Umair Khan (Nov 30 2017 at 04:57):Welcome Peter! Hope you enjoy GCI :).
Xavier Cooney (Nov 30 2017 at 09:04):Hello everyone! My name is Xavier, and I live in Sydney, Australia (UTC+11). I'm really excited to participate in GCI
Robert Hönig (Nov 30 2017 at 09:06):Welcome @Xavier Cooney! Nice to have someone from Down Under :)
Andrea Longo (Nov 30 2017 at 15:28):Hello! I'm Andrea, a mentor from California. I was a mentor last year too, this time I'll be dropping in to lend a hand along with the regularly scheduled mentors (lots of traveling happening right now.) I'm excited to see everyone's work this year!
Abijith (Nov 30 2017 at 16:54):Hello Peter, I am Abijith I am a student too! :)
Aleksandr (Nov 30 2017 at 18:27):Hello everybody
I'm Alexander, I'm student from Russia
Abijith (Nov 30 2017 at 18:28):Hey Alexander! I'm from India. :)
Kirill Kudryavtsev (Nov 30 2017 at 18:33):Im too russia student)
Как дела?
Aleksandr (Nov 30 2017 at 18:40):Fine)
I think we need to communicate in English so that other people can understand
Tim Abbott (Nov 30 2017 at 18:46):@Kirill Kudryavtsev @Aleksandr welcome! My wife was born in Russia, so I've been slowly learning Russian :).
Alena Volkova (Nov 30 2017 at 18:46):@Aleksandr @Kirill Kudryavtsev Hi guys! I’m a mentor, and I’m from Russia too! Welcome!
Tim Abbott (Nov 30 2017 at 18:47):Zulip's Russian translation is about half-complete, so that could be a fun area to get involved in during GCI (I think we have a few tasks for it)
Aleksandr (Nov 30 2017 at 18:51):I also thought so and applied for transifex.com
Joshua Pan (Nov 30 2017 at 21:13):Hi! I'm Joshua, a mentor from California. I was a Google Code-in Grand Winner last year (with another organization). Looking forward to help and see everyone's work!
Yashvardhan Sharma (Dec 01 2017 at 12:06):Hi everyone! I am Yash from India currently studying in 10th standard. I have heard a lot about Zulip from by brother and would like to contribute something to it! Being in class 10, I won't be able to be super active but sure I can learn a thing or two in the free time I get!
Alena Volkova (Dec 01 2017 at 12:08):@Yashvardhan Sharma Hi there! Welcome to Zulip!
Chaitanya Baranwal (Dec 02 2017 at 09:35):Hi! My name is Chaitanya. I'm in grade 12 and only recently introduced to programming!
Robert Hönig (Dec 02 2017 at 09:36):Welcome @Chaitanya Baranwal!
Abijith (Dec 02 2017 at 09:37):Hi @Chaitanya Baranwal
Balaji (Dec 02 2017 at 09:45):Hi, @Chaitanya Baranwal Welcome to Zulip!
John Kongtcheu (Dec 03 2017 at 07:51):Hello, Everyone my name is John Kongtcheu and it's nice to meet everyone
Balaji (Dec 03 2017 at 07:53):Hi @John Kongtcheu. Welcome to zulip 
!
Arnav Mahajan (Dec 03 2017 at 23:25):Hello! My name is Arnav Mahajan and I am in 10th Grade. I 'm really interested in helping out this awesome open source project :)
Kai Chen (Dec 04 2017 at 02:57):Hello everyone! My name is Kai, and I live in Vancouver, Canada. Excited to be here!
Rohitt Vashishtha (Dec 04 2017 at 03:19):Hey! Welcome to Zulip! :tada:
Abijith (Dec 04 2017 at 13:21):Hello, Everyone my name is John Kongtcheu and it's nice to meet everyone
Hello John!
Cacey O (Dec 04 2017 at 22:18):Hello everyone! My name is Cacey and I'm an 11th grader from New Jersey. Can't wait to start! :)
Tommy Ip (Dec 04 2017 at 22:19):Hi @Cacey O , welcome to Zulip!
Anirudh Jain (Dec 05 2017 at 04:41):Welcome to Zulip :victory_hand:️
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