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+# Developer - Winter of Code 2020
+
+# Rahul Balaji.
+
+# Organisation Name -  DSC NIT, Rourkela - Project-avocado
+
+# Overview 
+
+Refactor of code to have proper state management in home page , Creating a shared Preference service under services.     
+
+The project was an upgrade to better documentation of the home page in MVVM (model-view ,view-model) architecture. 
+The home page of the app is where all the features of the app are accessed from by hundreds of students everyday. 
+My work over this winter made the documentation of the code better and the improved state management made the code 
+more readable and easy to maintain for any future changes.
+
+I am Rahul Balaji, an undergraduate student from NIT Rourkela, as part of Winter of Code.
+
+This project was mentored by – Abel Matthew, Chinmay, and Smarak. The project had constant guidance from all three of them.
+
+# Contributions 
+
+# 1) setting up a shared preferences service :
+
+  in this task, I was responsible for creating a function to return an 	instance of sharedPreferences, 
+  and a function to save different types of content to disk using sharedPreferences. The issue is linked below.
+
+	#177 – Services - Create a sharedPreferences service.
+
+  https://github.com/dscnitrourkela/project-avocado/issues/177
+
+# 2) ViewModels – HomePage View Model :
+
+  in this task, I was responsible in creating the view and view model of the home page, refactoring the code and tweaking 	
+  minor errors that came along the way for the smooth functioning of the home page of the project.
+
+  During this task, I got into discussions about the MVVM architecture and resolving relevant errors with Smarak and 	
+  Chinmay. After a few suggested changes, the issue was finally closed. The issue is linked below.
+
+	#178 – ViewModels – HomePage View Model.
+
+  https://github.com/dscnitrourkela/project-avocado/issues/178
+
+# here are some of my PRs :
+
+1. https://github.com/dscnitrourkela/project-avocado/pull/180
+2. https://github.com/dscnitrourkela/project-avocado/pull/196
+
+# Future Scope of Work :
+
+Though my time spent on the project is short, I believe my work has made a significant impact in the maintainability of the code put 
+In by many contributors like myself. Suffice to say that the work has only begun and the conversion of all other pages of the app to 
+MVVM architecture will take place subsequently.
+
+# Acknowledgments:
+
+I had an exciting and informative winter this year working on project-avocado as a part of Winter of Code. I am grateful to have been 
+mentored by Abel, Chinmay and Smarak who have played a big role in my growth as a developer this past month. Working on this project opened 
+my mind to many new experiences in the open-source community. 
+
+I would like express my heartfelt gratitude towards my peers and my mentors who made my experience of Winter of Code an unforgettable one.