On 03/17/2016 12:34 PM, uanand009@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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?
Greetings!Thanks for reaching out! Yes, end-of-life notifications ARE listed as a GSoC project. Whether or not we get a slot for it will depend on a couple of things:
1) The number of mentors allocated to the project idea. 2) The number and strength of applicants we have applying for a slot. 3) The number of slots we are awarded by Google.The best way to ensure that we DO get a slot for it is to follow the procedure described at the bottom of the GSoC organization page.
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5630777857409024/
You've already given a good introduction of yourself on the
summer-coding mailing list (you forgot a name, though). :) From here,
you should join the various IRC channels (#fedora-summer-coding and
#atomic), and then work with mentors to figure out your next steps.
Additionally, there is a post on the Fedora Community Blog that should
help answer many of your questions about what to do next.
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-accepted-google-summer-of-code-gsoc-2016/ We look forward to getting to know you! -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7@xxxxxxxxx
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