GSOC 2012/Student Application amitksaha

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:

• 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 couple of things which makes me a good choice:

• Possession of Generic toolset knowledge - community and mailing list interaction, version control system and programming knowhow

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