GSOC 2013/Student Application Jilinxpd

• Your name: Peidong Xie
• FAS Account: jilinxpd
• Fedora userpage: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jilinxpd

Contact Information

• Email Address: jilinxpd AT gmail DOT com
• Blog URL: (In Chinese) http://www.cnblogs.com/zszmhd
• Freenode IRC Nick: jilinxpd

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please answer following questions

Why do you want to work with the Fedora Project?

• Fedora is my favorite distribution of Linux. I have been using it since 2010. I think it's helpful. Now I'm doing some research on hadoop, which is running on Fedora 16. I want to particpate in the Fedora Project, I will be proud if I could make little changes to it to make it better.

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

• I participated in the illumos Project during the GSoC of last year. My work is to implemnt mmap support for smbfs(CIFS client) in illumos. (http://cr.illumos.org/~webrev/jilinxpd/)

Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations?

• Yes, 2012 with illumos project. (http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/jilinxpd/13001)

Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Fedora project after the GSoC 2013 program, if yes, which team(s), you are interested with?

• Yes, I will continue contributing the Fedora project. I'm interested in file system and nosql, so I choose the GSOC idea "Implement a Cassandra/NoSQL Connector or Translator for GlusterFS". I think the SIGs Cloud and NoSQL may fit me.

Why should we choose you over other applicants?

• I majoring the Storage,I have study the linux kernel, file system, distributed system, and nosql for several years, I have the required fundamental knowledge.
• I have participated in several projects related with the file system, I know how the file system behaviours.
• I have experience participating in the Open Source Project. I'm skilled in coding in C/C++, seting up development enviroment, debugging, commiting and so on.
• I'm a hard-working guy and I'm going to try my best to do the things I love.