GSOC 2016/Student Application wi1d5ky

Contact Information

• Name: Wildsky Fann
• FAS Account: wi1d5ky
• Fedora userpage: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:wi1d5ky
• Email Address: poppin.wildsky@gmail.com
• Blog URL: http://blog.wildsky.cc
• Freenode IRC Nick: wildsky
• Code Forges (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, etc.):
  • Github : https://github.com/wi1d5ky
• Social Media Accounts:
  • Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/wi1d5ky
  • Twitter : https://twitter.com/wi1d5ky

Questions to answer

Why do you want to work with the Fedora Project?

I started my Linux journey with fedora 20. Fedora has been my best friend for 2 years. I find it a really marvelous OS, so I cannot go back to Windows OS. Now I finish my slides, edit images, chat with friends, surf the net, and do all of my daily chores on fedora, I cannot leave it! I have gotten a lot from fedora, so now I want to give back. I have participated in some other open source communities, and now I want to sharpen my skill and try to help fedora community!

I think people in fedora community are all visionary and like to be the early adopters. If I learn here, I think I will earn a lot of experience, and face the future better!

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

Yes, I usually contribute to Fedora Taiwan Community, Vim Taiwan Community, Mozilla Taiwan Community, Lolypop Community, or some other open source community in Taiwan. What I contribute to are all about front-end (Not only websites but also web apps).

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

No, this is my first time to participate GSoC. I have read a lot of articles in the internet, and feel that GSoC is a great activities, which let me get involved into fedora community more easily.

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

Of course, I would like to continue contributing after GSoC. GSoC is my first step to contribute to the Fedora Project. I think fedora is really a great os, and I want it better. What I can do is about HTML, CSS, JavaScript. So I'm interested in Cockpit Project.(Which might need me for front-end.)

Why should we choose you over other applicants?

I think here are some reasons:

• I use fedora on daily basis and wouldn't change
• I also suggest my friends (and teachers ;P) to install fedora for daily life because I find it easy to use, not only for submitting report(thanks to LibreOffice) but also to develope software (thanks to MS Windows, LoL)
• I have contributed to many websites for open source communities, so I think I have the ability to help fedora community in front-end.
• I am interested in lots of things, which make me learn new things willingly and quickly.
• I think I have a strong sense of responsibility. No matter how hard the mission is, I'll never give it up as long as I promised it.

Therefore I think I am one of the best candidates.

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)?

Yes, as I said, I usually contribute to Fedora Taiwan Community, Vim Taiwan Community, Mozilla Taiwan Community. Here are some of the repos:

• Fedora Taiwan Community: https://github.com/linux-taiwan/fedora.linux.org.tw/commits/gh-pages?author=wi1d5ky
• Vim Taiwan Community: https://github.com/vim-tw/vim-tw.github.io/commits/master?author=wi1d5ky
• Mozilla Taiwan Community: https://github.com/moztw/www.moztw.org/commits/master?author=wi1d5ky
• Lollypop - one of the best player on Gnome: https://github.com/gnumdk/lollypop-web/commits/gh-pages?author=wi1d5ky

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

• I'm a member of MDN (Mozilla Developer Network), I used to translate articles from en_US to zh_TW for front-end developers.
• I'm a member of SUMO (Mozilla Support), I used to provide solutions to some general problems regarding firefox.