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=== Why do you want to work with the Fedora Project? === | === 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 ([https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799810 Review awaited]) | |||
'''Past involvement with other Open Source projects:''' | |||
* [http://wiki.netbeans.org/AmitKumarSaha NetBeans IDE] | |||
* [http://echorand.me/code/ Miscellaneous ] | |||
=== Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? === | === Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? === | ||
Revision as of 13:53, 3 April 2012
Contact Information
- Email Address: amitksaha@fedoraproject.org
- Blog URL: http://echorand.me
- 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:
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 program, if yes, which team(s)/area(s), you are interested with? ===