Hi everyone. I am a first year undergraduate student studying Biological Sciences and
Bioengineering at IIT Kanpur. I have a keen interest in coding. I have been working with
various linux distributions including fedora (currently using fedora 23 on my new
laptop(as it's a 6th gen intel skylake processor, I wanted to have kernel 4.4 and
fedora is cutting edge, so opted for it)) for the past 8 years. I am quite comfortable
with tweaking around with system files. Also, I am fluent in C and C++ (started coding a
year before I started using linux). So, I'd like to apply for the project
"Support for end-of-life notification".
I haven't created a real world software till date. So, I'd like to use this
opportunity to start contributing to open source community. I'm good at solving
puzzles but I want to get a taste of "How to create a real world software".
As the fedora wiki page shows, the mentor for this project is jberkus. I'd like to get
started as soon as possible. Should I send a direct email to the mentor in order to get
started?