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Contact Information

Name: Amit Saha
Email Address: amitksaha@fedoraproject.org
Blog URL: http://echorand.me/category/fedora/
Freenode IRC Nick: amitksaha

Why do you want to work with the Fedora Project?

My second stint as a Fedora user started about an year back, and liked it much more than I had about 10 years ago when I first started using Linux. I was nursing the idea of a custom Linux distribution for scientific and numerical computing for quite some time. I started exploring the options of creating this spin based on Fedora, and the Fedora project's easy and transparent way to propose a custom spin attracted me. In no time I had the Scientific Spin's process rolling. The Scientific Spin was released along with Fedora 16, thanks to the welcoming and co-operative nature of the Spins SIG, release engineering and the Fedora design and websites team.

This first involvement and my growing understanding of the Fedora community makes it a first choice for me for GSoC 2012. Needless to say, my involvement won't start or cease with GSoC.

Past involvement with Fedora Project:

Creator and Maintainer of the Fedora Scientific Spin

Mailing list moderator of the SciTech SIG

Packager (Review awaited)

Past involvement with other Open Source projects:

NetBeans IDE

Miscellaneous

Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations?

Not yet

Why should we choose you over the other applicants?

There are a few things which should definitely give me a head-start over other applicants

My experience of creating and maintaining the Fedora Scientific Spin

My experience packaging for Fedora

Existing experience with the toolchain (creating/building Fedora live CDs, kickstart files, installers) desired for the proposed GSoC 2012 project

Possession of Generic toolset knowledge - community and mailing list interaction, version control system and programming knowhow - Shell scripting, Python scrpting and working with the Fedora tools such as Koji, Pungi, Lorax, etc.

Documentation is important. My articles have appered in Linux Journal, Linux For You, Linux Gazette and elsewhere. So, I actually like documentation.

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 === Contact Information ===
-* Email Address:
+* Name: Amit Saha
-* Telephone:
+* Email Address: amitksaha@fedoraproject.org
-* Blog URL:
+* Blog URL: http://echorand.me/category/fedora/
-* Freenode IRC Nick:
+* Freenode IRC Nick: amitksaha
-'''NOTE: We require all students to blog about the progress of their project time to time.'''
+=== Why do you want to work with the Fedora Project? ===
+My second stint as a Fedora user started about an year back, and liked it much more than I had about 10 years ago when I first started using Linux. I was nursing the idea of a custom Linux distribution for scientific and numerical computing for quite some time. I started exploring the options of creating this spin based on Fedora, and the Fedora project's easy and transparent way to propose a custom spin attracted me. In no time I had the Scientific Spin's process rolling. The Scientific Spin was released along with Fedora 16, thanks to the welcoming and co-operative nature of the Spins SIG, release engineering and the Fedora design and websites team.
+This first involvement and my growing understanding of the Fedora community makes it a first choice for me for GSoC 2012. Needless to say, my involvement won't start or cease with GSoC.
+'''Past involvement with Fedora Project:'''
+* Creator and Maintainer of the ''Fedora Scientific Spin''
-You are strongly encouraged to register on the Freenode network and participate in our
+* Mailing list moderator of the SciTech SIG
-IRC channels.  For more information and other instructions, see:
-https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSOC_2012
+* Packager ([https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799810 Review awaited])
-Please answer following questions.
+'''Past involvement with other Open Source projects:'''
-=== Why do you want to work with the Fedora Project? ===
+* [http://wiki.netbeans.org/AmitKumarSaha NetBeans IDE]
-=== Do you have any past involvement with the Fedora project or with any another open
+* [http://echorand.me/code/ Miscellaneous ]
-source project as a contributor (if possible please add some references as well)? ===
 === Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? ===
-=== Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Fedora project after the GSoC 2012
+Not yet
-program, if yes, which team(s)/area(s), you are interested with? ===
 === Why should we choose you over the other applicants? ===
+There are a few things which should definitely give me a head-start over other applicants
+* My experience of creating and maintaining the '''Fedora Scientific Spin'''
+* My experience packaging for Fedora
+* Existing experience with the toolchain (creating/building Fedora live CDs, kickstart files, installers) desired for the proposed GSoC 2012 project
+* Possession of Generic toolset knowledge - community and mailing list interaction, version control system and programming knowhow - Shell scripting, Python scrpting and working with the Fedora tools such as Koji, Pungi, Lorax, etc.
+* Documentation is important. My [http://echorand.me/writings/ articles] have appered in Linux Journal, Linux For You, Linux Gazette and elsewhere. So, I actually like documentation.
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