- Your name: Aneesh Dogra
- FAS Account: lionaneesh
- Fedora userpage: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lionaneesh
Contact Information
- Email Address: lionaneesh@gmail.com
- Blog URL: http://anee.me
- Freenode IRC Nick: lionaneesh
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please answer following questions
Why do you want to work with the Fedora Project?
I feel Fedora's pretty open. They have very diverse projects (not just OS/Existing Apps specific) and they are not egotistical about it: the features/projects they work on they try to make it available to non-fedora users as well, this is the coolest thing about this organisation. I love working on projects that are freely available to anyone, regardless of them using fedora or any other linux. Besides this, the ideas were pretty interesting and I found a project that really suits my niche and lies in the field I am passionate about.
Do you have any past involvement with the Fedora project or any other open source project as a contributor?
Not with fedora but I have worked on a couple of open source projects previously including Sugarlabs and Libav. I started out in libav as a GCI 2011 participant and later was selected as one of the grand prize winners. I continued development with Libav for over a year and I worked on the Bytestream2 API, wrote a simple sunrast decoder and fixed a few bugs in some decoders/encoders. I started out in Sugarlabs as a GCI 2012 participant and later was again selected by the organisation as one of the grand prize winners. My major work includes working on the activities. I have worked over 20 Sugar Activities, fixed over a 100 bugs and am maintaining around 6-7 major sugar activities. I later mentored a student for Sugarlabs in GSoC 2013 (A translation server backend - with Restful APIs) and some more students in GCI 2013. I am still a part of sugarlabs, I maintain some of their activities and still contribute towards some sections of the project. Besides these two. I wrote some patches for KStars (KDE), some for KhanAcademy and have minor contributions in some other projects as well. I have a pretty active github profile. I contribute to projects, I find interesting and also put up my own projects there.
Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations?
I didn't participate as a student before, but I did participate as a mentor in GSoC 2013 in Sugarlabs.
Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Fedora project after the GSoC 2012 program, if yes, which team(s), you are interested with?
Yeah I would love to. I wasn't really aware of much of the work Fedora was into till I really started reading about Fedora's projects. I am really interested in the automation and the web development team and would love to contribute and help in anyway possible.
Why should we choose you over other applicants?
I have a fair amount of experience in open source, have experience building and maintaining significant amounts of FOSS code. If you check projects on my github profile you'll notice my interest for automation. I have experience in python, shell, flask and C/C++. Besides my skills, I am not new to deadlines, have no problems in communicating with my mentors and can solve problems quickly.