Gentoo Archives: gentoo-soc

From: Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o>
To: "Pearson\\, Zach Jared" <z096p336@××.edu>
Cc: "gentoo-soc\\@l.g.o" <gentoo-soc@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] Interest in two projects
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 14:09:39
Message-Id: 87bloowkfi.fsf@robot.e.airelinux.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-soc] Interest in two projects by "Pearson
1 Hi Pearson,
2
3 "Pearson, Zach Jared" <z096p336@××.edu> writes:
4
5 > My name is Zach Pearson, and I'm currently working as a
6 > cheminformatics specialist at the Molecular Structure-Function Lab in
7 > the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the Uiversity of Kansas
8 > School of Pharmacy. Wow, that's a mouthful every time.
9 >
10 > I am also a post-baccalaureate junior in the KU School of
11 > Engineering's Computer Science program. I made the choice to get
12 > another bachelor's degree rather than attend graduate school because
13 > the sense among the faculty at the time was that it would be less
14 > restrictive career-wise, though I have interests in operating systems,
15 > compilers, virtualization, human-computer interaction, and
16 > computational natural sciences that I would love to work on in a
17 > graduate program if that's what the future holds for me.
18 >
19 > I came to Gentoo after a couple years of using Linux and just feel in
20 > love with its elegant package management system and the ease with
21 > which a stable system could be kept, even with a mixture of versioned
22 > and live packages. I've used it for three years now, and I hope to use
23 > it always.
24 >
25 > I joined the IRC channel but I see we should also email this group, so
26 > what follows is a copy of my message to the IRC channel, edits in
27 > brackets as they would be for a quote:
28 >
29 > ----
30 >
31 > Hello everyone, I'm interested in participating in GSOC, particularly
32 > on the eclean-kernel rewrite[ or] kernel stabilization[
33 > projects]. [Before I learned of GSOC] I [was] also considering a
34 > kernel manager like ukuu, but right now I've just got a script that
35 > updates my own automatically.
36
37 Nice to meet you and welcome! Please be aware of the timeline of GSoC ,
38 select 1 project and draft a proposal in a timely manner.
39
40 Yours,
41 Benda