<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;min-width:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:auto;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" id="gmail-:131" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.875rem;overflow-x:hidden"><div class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" id="gmail-:130" style="direction:ltr;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:auto hidden"><div id="gmail-avWBGd-40"><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_-9048465912744082607gmail-docs-internal-guid-0c86969a-7fff-f1b2-3740-5c7f88e874ff"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dear ScummVM Team, Hello,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">My name is Zahed Shams, and I am a computer science and engineering student. After browsing through the list of projects for Google Summer of Code 2026, I found a few that interested me. The ones that interested me most were implementing the text to speech functionality to certain games, adding Keymapper to more games, porting the ALIS engine to ScummVM, and the Yaga engine task. I was interested in the option of working around 175 hours on all of these tasks, or more if needed. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">In terms of my skills and abilities, I have extensive experience working with Java, Python, some C/ C++, etc. I have mathematical knowledge of linear algebra, calculus, and discrete mathematics.  In addition, I am able to quickly grasp other coding languages. Despite being a beginner, I am very eager to apply all that I have learned inside and outside the classroom. I am a team player that enjoys collaboration. I would be more than happy to speak more about my interest in this role. Thank you for your time and consideration.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Sincerely,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Zahed Shams</span></p></span><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL"><br></div></div><div class="gmail-adL"></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-WhmR8e" id="gmail-avWBGd-41" style="clear:both"></div></div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>