User:Ynemoy/Internships/Summer2008

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Summer 2008 Goals

This is a list of what I have planned for the summer.

Officially, I am done with this school year by the first of May, and go back to school on the 25th of August. In that time, I have the following things planned for activities. I invite people to comment and elaborate on them, where appropriate.

During June, July, and August, I will hopefully be working as an intern for Red Hat. I plan on working out of the Netherlands during most of the summer. I will work remotely from a small town, Wageningen, in the eastern part of the country, since it offers a few advantages. It is close by to the Amserfoort office, the rent is reasonably priced, and I have many contacts there. It is also near Utrecht and Arnhem, where many of the international trains go through, so I can travel to other places in Europe if needed. I plan on being involved with the technical community there.

This list is very tentative.

Pre Internship

These goals are project ideas I've spoken about before, and need to be finished. This will take place in May.

Haskell Guidelines

Wevisor / Revisor

This is something I've had an idea for floating around the past few months.

Smolt

We've been making the server i10n-able

Server 2 Server communications

Code

These are projects involving actual code writing that I will do over the summer. These items are reportable to Mike, Toshio, and Luke. If there are any Smolt projects in the GSoC, it will include that.

One thing I have in mind, is that I want to spend my first two weeks working on code as much as possible. I'm assuming I will be working remotely with the team in Boston, among other things. If I start working with them, even if I scale down the work I do for other projects, it will be somewhat easier to stay on the same page. Thus, please fill in the tasks that you (Mike, Toshio, and Luke) have in mind for me to do.

Build System

Ensuring Buildsys changes are on track and being made:

FAS2

FAS2 changes

Smolt

Infrastructure

These are projects involving Infrastructure and Plumbing. They are reportable to Mike.

The same I said applies to what's up above. I'm not sure what's on the plate here, I've been out of touch with Fedora Infrastructure lately due to other demands.

Build System

Marketing

These are projects involving Open Source Activism and work with the Fedora Ambassadors and Fedora EMEA. It is my primary reason for working in Europe, and includes going to conferences. It is reportable to Max.

LinuxTag

Fedora 9 Release Install Party - Arlon, Belgium

Fedora 9 Release Install Party - Paris, France

Other Ideas

I also have another idea for a fun project, aside from the regular marketing business. Fedora is shaping up to be a great testbed for the experimental. I think there definitely is a need to get more people to think of Fedora for what it is, Freedom etc..., and not just some project by Red Hat. Fortunately, there is a pretty extensive network and community of students and student aged people in the Netherlands using Open Source software and writing Open Source code on daily basis. I would like to set up a BarCamp this summer between members of the Fedora Community and the general Open Source Community in the Netherlands. The theme would be "the Experimental and the Next Generation in Open Source". It would give us a good chance to see what else is out there, and give them a good chance to see how we can help, and what we can offer.


What it will accomplish

I've found that the Dutch in particular prefer very minimalist solutions to the tasks they have at hand. They often joke that Emacs was written by an American, but Vim was written by a Dutchman. Fedora is anything but. I would say the first step is to show them that Fedora is not just a distro, but entails a lot more. I also look forward to the crazy things that will come out of such a conference.

Details 

* Central location, probably Utrecht or Wageningen
* Estimated attendance approx 200-300 people at most
* Will need to search for funding from multiple sources
* Need to contact LUGs in the region to collaborate with them
* Will need to assemble some basic dutch language oriented marketing tools
* Probably sometime in august, make sure it's not during Max's PTO.

Other

These are other tasks that take advantage of my time in Europe as well, plus other things.

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