GSOC 2014/Student Application sarupbanskota

Contact Information

• Your name: Sarup Banskota
• FAS Account: sarupbanskota
• Fedora userpage: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sarupbanskota

• Email Address: sbanskota08 AT gmail DOT com
• Blog URL: http://thirstyforcola.wordpress.com/category/technology/foss/
• Freenode IRC Nick: banas

Why Fedora Project?

My involvement with Fedora started with GlitterGallery last summer, and I'm happy to see it progress. In the process, I've got a chance to interact with many other Fedora contributors across various domains. In the spirit of giving back, I spend almost every weekend on a trip evangelizing Fedora and FOSS.

I've enjoyed so far and would like to continue doing so. Just like last time, my primary motivation to work with the Fedora project coming summer is to take GlitterGallery to the next level.

Past involvement with the Fedora project/ other FOSS projects?

• I've made substantial contributions to GlitterGallery[1].
• I do quite some non-programmatic FOSS activity - updating Fedora wiki pages, speaking about FOSS at conferences, conducting hackfests in and around college. Recently I presented at FOSSASIA 2014 in the Fedora track about GlitterGallery[2]. I also did a workshop on getting started with FOSS techniques[3].

[1] - https://github.com/glittergallery/GlitterGallery

[2]- http://www.slideshare.net/sarupbanskota/sarup-fossasia

[3]- http://www.slideshare.net/sarupbanskota/sarup-fossasia-1

Past GSoC involvement

I participated in 2013 as a student with the Fedora project.