Google Summer Of Code

[kartik]

For the last few days I was busy with the scratch installation of dreamwidth on fedora. But now when its done so it feels great  to me. I have been there on #dw and the community helped me whenever i needed it. I must say the community is really helpful and supportive. It provides you with the perfect ambience in which you can work and give the best in you. Now I am applying for Production Monitoring which comes under System Administration as my Gsoc project. I am choosing this project as system administration is something which admires me a lot. I feel that this is the backbone for any running website or system. Apart from that I have also cleared Red Hat Certification Engineer Certification Examination in November 2009, and so I am comfortable enough to deal with servers and configuring them. I want to apply my existing knowledge as well as eager and learning new stuffs like cacti and nagios which are the standard industry environment and are used by dreamwidth. As for now that I don't have much idea about them so my approach is to prepare some basic shell scripts and implementing them on cacti.

Now I am writing my proposal for Gsoc and will post that soon( as now only 2 days are left :P). I have some small doubt what are the things that I need to cover in the project abstact section. Does that include my working strategy and the overall schedule, actually i am a bit confused that to what extend do i need to mention in this section and to include what else. I am looking forward for the community review so that I shall include those features too. Your suggestions are always welcomed. :)

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Congratulations on your feat of installation!

[kartik]

Thanks azurelunatic. Its a pleasure doing that installation.

[cesy]

This is such a cool project. It's all behind-the-scenes and doesn't have the user facing stuff of the standard desktop client that everyone seems to be doing, but it's going to be much more useful in the long term.

[kartik]

Thanks for the appreciation cesy. :)

[denise]

Since the project you're interested in is much more vaguely defined, you're going to need to be creative! You obviously won't know details about our production infrastructure, so your application should talk about what you hope to get out of your project and what things you've learned already from the install process.

Talk about your working strategy, what kind of tools you expect to be using, etc. This project is going to involve a lot of self-teaching and research, so talk about how you approach learning about something you aren't familiar with -- where you go to find more information about problems you're having, what tools you use to find information, what you do when you get stuck, etc.

If you have any ideas about specific tools that you want to learn more about, or programs you want to learn how to work with, include that as well. And be sure to tell us why you're excited about this project in particular, and why you love system administration enough to devote a summer to it!

[kartik]

Thanks for these wonderful suggestions denise. I'll try to cover all the points you've mentioned. :)