- Your name: Bogdan-Gabriel Ciobanu
- FAS Account: bogdanc
- Fedora userpage: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bogdanc
Contact Information
- Email Address: bgdn.ciobanu@gmail.com
- Freenode IRC Nick: bogdanc
Why do you want to work with the Fedora Project?
As a young student, I enjoy the opportunity Fedora offers me to work on something meaningful for a lot of people. I always wanted my work to be useful to others and so is this project and this is an opportunity to do just that. In Fedora's case, what the organisation does is to offer the chance for people to enjoy their computers for free, to learn for free and get the most of the device that became essential for humanity, the Computer. Therefore, my first reason that makes me want to join Fedora Community is because I really believe in the mission of the organisation and I want to spend some of my time working together to meet that mission.
Improving my skills and broadening my knowledge is another thing I am putting my energy and time. Working along some really skillful and talented programmers, I am assured that I will learn from the best, so someday I can be among the best. Therefore, my second reason is to keep growing at a personal level along a nice and supporting community.
Do you have any past involvement with the Fedora project or any other open source project as a contributor?
My first contact with open source world was in my first year of college. I have started by joining a course organised by Rosedu, a local non-profit organisation which has the scope to educate through open source. There I was introduced in the process of working on a open source project, communicating with a team and enjoying the experience. During the program and beyond, I have worked on a single page app which was meant to be a UI for a software which automatically checks students' assignments and homeworks. With the contributions I have made to this project, I have competed in a contest based on open source contributions and won it.
My participation in Google Summer of Code last year was the most notable participation I had in open source, but I have also been involved in other open source related activities.
Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations?
I was a student in Google Summer Of Code program, last year, just after I have finished my freshmen year. I participated along GNOME. My project was to create the possibility for the to choose as avatar in Gnome a profile picture from Facebook, Gravatar and other online services and to redesign the way he chooses that avatar. As a follow up, I have mentored some students into starting contributing to Gnome as part of the same project I learned about open source in my first year, as I have described earlier.
Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Fedora project after the GSoC 2014 program, if yes, which team(s), you are interested with?
I will continue to contribute to my project and develop it even further. Also, after I will meet more persons and projects in the community I will work on other projects that I will find interesting.
Why should we choose you over other applicants?
I believe my most important asset is the passion to solve other people's problems through good quality software and, more than that, my inclination for trying to find solutions for real issues, not just solving technical problems.
Moreover, my past experiences proved that I am highly capable of quickly adapting myself to new situations, learn new things quick and acquiring the skills needed in a short term. Also, I am very motivated to meet my objectives and get better every day.
Nonetheless, my determination, good programming skills and good communication skills will lead me to valuable contributions to the community.