GSOC 2016/Student Application vivekanand1101

Project Title : Make pagure adaptable for pkgs.fedoraproject.org

Contact Information

Name: Vivek Anand E-mail: vivekanand1101@gmail.com Freenode IRC nick: vivek_ Phone: 91-8084627231 Code forges: * Pagure: vivekanand1101 * GitHub: vivekanand1101 Blog url: https://vivekanandxyz.wordpress.com Location: Allahabad, India, UTC +5:30

About Me

I’m a Junior student at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad majoring in Information Technology. I have been working in Python for about 2 years now. I also have experience in flask, Django, have worked with SQLAlchemy and Scrapy. I started using open source softwares about one and half years ago when i first used Scrapy for one of my projects. Ever since then, i have found interest in open source. Anitya was my first project to which i contributed for fedora, which was about in Aug-Sept 2015. Then i moved to Pagure, for which i have been contributing since then. Why do you want to work with the Fedora Project? Fedora is my favorite operating system as i find it simple, easy to use and best suited for my web application development environment. Also, as i have been contributing to fedora projects, i have felt a lot of improvement in myself which encourages me to keep on contributing to this project. Do you have any past involvement with the Fedora project or another open source project as a contributor? Yes, I have contributed to Anitya project and Pagure. Why should we choose you over other applicants? I have 2 years experience of coding in Python language which is basic required skill of the project. The project is about adding features to Pagure so that we can host pkgs.fedoraproject.org on a Pagure instance. I am already contributing to Pagure. The technical knowledge required for this project are (mostly): Flask, SQLAlchemy, Postgresql. I have experience in each of them. Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? No, I am applying to GSoC for the first time. Do you plan to continue contributing to the Fedora Project after GSoC? If yes, what sub-project(s) are you interested with? Yes. Simple reason behind it is that projects are cool and cooler are the people who are maintaining them. There is just too much knowledge and experience in the fedora-infra team for me to stop contributing. The projects under fedora-infra team that i am most interested in will be Pagure itself. I think it is cool and with the growth rate it is having, i see it will be a lot popular in coming years. I also find Fedora-Hubs a very cool project. I will like to contribute to it too, in future. Will you have any other time commitments, such as school work, another job, planned vacation, etc., during the duration of the program? In early May our summer vacation of college will start and ends by late of July; I can give my full time commitment to this project,. I assure dedication of at least 40 hours per week to the work and that I do not have any other obligations from early May till mid August.

Why do you want to work with the Fedora Project?

Fedora is my favorite operating system as i find it simple, easy to use and best suited for my web application development environment. Also, as i have been contributing to fedora projects, i have felt a lot of improvement in myself which encourages me to keep on contributing to this project.

Do you have any past involvement with the Fedora Project or another open-source project as a contributor?

Yes, I have contributed to Anitya project and Pagure and i am presently working on Pagure Importer

Have you participated in GSoC in the past? If so, what year(s) and which organization(s)?

No, I am applying to GSoC for the first time.

Do you plan to continue contributing to the Fedora Project after GSoC? If yes, what sub-project(s) are you interested with?

Yes. Simple reason behind it is that projects are cool and cooler are the people who are maintaining them. There is just too much knowledge and experience in the fedora-infra team for me to stop contributing. The projects under fedora-infra team that i am most interested in will be Pagure itself. I think it is cool and with the growth rate it is having, i see it will be a lot popular in coming years. I also find Fedora-Hubs a very cool project. I will like to contribute to it too, in future.

Why should we choose you over other applicants?

• I have 2 years experience of coding in Python language which is basic required skill of the project.
• The project is about adding features to Pagure so that we can host pkgs.fedoraproject.org on a Pagure instance. I am already contributing to Pagure.
• The technical knowledge required for this project are (mostly): Flask, SQLAlchemy, Postgresql. I have experience in each of them.

Have you contributed to any other open source organizations or projects? If so, do you have artifacts you can show so we can see your skill set(s)?

No, My open source journey began with fedora. Although, i do open source the projects i work on whether alone or with my friends. In fedora, i have contributed to Anitya and Pagure and currently working on Pagure Importer.

Do you have any other open source experience (even if not coding-related)?

No, i don’t have any other experience.

Will you have any other time commitments, such as school work, another job, planned vacation, etc., during the duration of the program?

In mid May, our summer vacation of college will start and ends by late of July; I can give my full time commitment to this project,. I assure dedication of at least 40 hours per week to the work and that I do not have any other obligations from May till August.