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Email Address: thomkoenders@gmail.com Telephone: +31613091851 Blog URL: thomkoenders.blogspot.com Freenode IRC Nick: Wolk
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Please answer following questions.
Why do you want to work with the Fedora Project?
I have been using Fedora for quite some while and I like it a lot. I have been considering to contribute to the Fedora project for quite a while but had a hard time taking that final step. The GSoC program seemed to me like the perfect opportunity to change this and therefore I decided to try and join this way. I would like to be able to contribute to the Fedora project this way in order to make it an even better distribution than it already is.
=== Do you have any past involvement with the Fedora project or with any another open source project as a contributor (if possible please add some references as well)? === Unfortunatly, as mentioned earlier, I have not been involved in the Fedora project other than using it.
Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations?
I did not participate in past GSoC programs. I wanted to participate last year but was just a little too late.
=== Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Fedora project after the GSoC 2012 program, if yes, which team(s)/area(s), you are interested with? === I would very much like to continue contributing to the Fedora project after the project, preferably in the area I worked on in the GSoC since I would be familiar with this area.
Why should we choose you over the other applicants?
I have been studying software engineering for the past five years, the practical side as well as the academical side. I enjoy developing software and feel I learned a great deal about software development in these five years.
I have worked with a lot of different object oriented programming languages like JAVA, C#.NET, PHP, C++, Python. Using this programming languages to develop applications, school as well as my own projects, has given me quite some developing experience. I also take every possibility I can to try and learn new things.
Ofcourse I am well aware I still have a lot to learn and therefore I hope I will be given this possibility in order to further develop my skills. Also, as mentioned in the upcomming section, I have been developing applications dealing with networking multiple times in the past. I think this experience with networking in applications will be quite handy.
I have been working in groups a lot, interdisciplinary as well as with other software developers, which gave me a lot of experience in working in teams. Also for most of the school project I have done, I had to write documentation and reports. Therefore I also have experience in writing documentation.
In short -Studying software development and computing science for past five year. -Lot of experience in multiple programming languages and object oriented programming as a whole. -Willing to learn. -Experience in developing applications with networking, which is related to the project of my choice. -Working in groups. -Experience in writing.
Proposal Description
I would like to work on one of the proposed project going by the name "Integrate Proxy Settings and Network Connections(Locations)" which can be found at:
I have developed applications with networking aspects multiple times. I always enjoyed working on these projects a lot and therefore I feel this experience will help me work on this project.
Therefore I would very much like to work on the "Integrate Proxy Settings and Network Connections(Locations)" project.
Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who?
I have mailed some questions to the mentor Dan Winship though I figure this is not precisely the communication that is meant here.