GSOC 2013/Student Application Jonathanhindi

• Your name: Jonathan Hindi
• FAS Account: jonathanhindi
• Fedora userpage: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jonathanhindi

Contact Information

• Email Address: jonathan.hindi [at] gmail [dot] com
• Telephone: +201111621607
• Blog URL: http://jonathanhindi.wordpress.com/
• Freenode IRC Nick: JonathanHindi

Application

Why do you want to work with the Fedora Project?

Fedora is one of the few successful linux distributions, I believe in Open Source philosophy and would like to support and contribute, I believe that Linux should be used by everyone, Fedora is not just a project it's a great community which is the most important in my opinion, I believe that community is the core of any successful open source project. I am willing to gain some real life experience and know new people from the fedora community, I am new to the community but I love new experiences. Getting involved in such successful open source project is a life milestone for me to begin my profissional life beside the satisfaction you get while contributing back to the community who helped you at the beginning.

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

I don't have any past involvement in Fedora, But I contributed to Ubuntu by reporting bugs, suggesting translations, contributed as part of the LoCo team Ubuntu Egypt by creating some needed artworks, building the team website, gave some web development sessions and co-organised public events and team activities.

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

No I didin't, It's my first year to apply.

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

Yes, I am interested to contribute in the Marketing Team or Website Team, I would be also interested to maintain the project idea I am applying for.

Why should we choose you over other applicants?

• I am eager to learn new web technologies.
• I am willing to invest my next vacation learning and building a new application which will help others (The main motivation for me is to help others).
• I will keep contributing to Fedora after the end of the Program.
• Increasing my experience in Web Apps development is my career objective.
• I have experience in Web Design and User Experience, I follow up with all recent web technologies and try to early adapt some of them in my projects.
• I have a good financial background, as I am a Business Information Systems students.
• I have been using linux since June 2006, and I believe in this operating systems and I will keep recommending it to all my friends.
• Experienced in building MVC web apps.

Proposal Description

The need I believe the project fulfils

• Track Cash Inflows and Outflows.
• Allocate Budget for each region.
• Generate reports and managerial level data which will help Budget Owners to allocate the right budget for next year.
• Help Fedora Ambassadors to easily request funds without following a long process, also give them the option to track approval inside the same system.
• Save evidence (receipt) in one place for easily reference.

Relevant Experience

I am a Business Information Student, I have a good background in business specially accounting and finance from college. Firstly started with web design then web development since 2007, created many small websites was static at the beginning then dynamic using some CMSs (Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal). I am maintaining some examples in my resume hosted here.

I have a good programming knowledge specially PHP since 2008, I love to follow the best practices for each language I use, I adore keeping myself updated with the latest technologies and features. 

I am currently creating my graduation project with laravel 4, unfortunately I don't have it in a public repo right now.

This is my first financial or accounting system, but not my first web app, I believe that I have the set of required skills that will help me to implement my proposal.