Hi everyone. I am a first year undergraduate student studying Biological Sciences and Bioengineering at IIT Kanpur. I have a keen interest in coding. I have been working with various linux distributions including fedora (currently using fedora 23 on my new laptop(as it's a 6th gen intel skylake processor, I wanted to have kernel 4.4 and fedora is cutting edge, so opted for it)) for the past 8 years. I am quite comfortable with tweaking around with system files. Also, I am fluent in C and C++ (started coding a year before I started using linux). So, I'd like to apply for the project "Support for end-of-life notification". I haven't created a real world software till date. So, I'd like to use this opportunity to start contributing to open source community. I'm good at solving puzzles but I want to get a taste of "How to create a real world software". As the fedora wiki page shows, the mentor for this project is jberkus. I'd like to get started as soon as possible. Should I send a direct email to the mentor in order to get started? _______________________________________________ summer-coding mailing list summer-coding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/summer-coding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
