Hello Piergiorgio Lucidi, Thanks for all the response and for all the information. I checked your response on the Jira ticket and would go through the ManifoldCF documentation.
Also, joined the hipchat channel. Looking forward to working with you. On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 3:30 PM, Piergiorgio Lucidi <piergior...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Abhishek, > > nice to meet you and thank you for your interest in participating in the > Apache ManifoldCF project. > > What can I say? > Welcome to the ManifoldCF Community :) > > It will be a pleasure to work with you and I think that you could bring a > lot of value to the project, not only for your academic career but also for > the next steps ;) > > Actually we have a previous request for working on this task that was > arrived before yours: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-1492 > > Could you please leave also a message on that issue? > Then we can try to understand if we can enable both of you to work > together on the same task or we could split the project in two separated > tasks. > I'll have to discuss this internally before giving you a confirmation that > anyway will arrive only when you will apply officially starting from March. > > For chatting, no problem, you could join our public HipChat room at the > following link: > https://www.hipchat.com/gOSgu3lH8 > > It is pretty new and we will publish it later on our new website. > Thank you and welcome again in the community. > > Cheers, > PJ > > 2018-02-15 19:35 GMT+01:00 Abhishek Kapoor <kapoorabhishe...@gmail.com>: > >> Hello Piergiorgio Lucidi, >> >> I am Abhishek Kapoor, currently pursuing my *Masters of Science - >> Informatics *at *Technical University of Munich, Germany*. I am writing >> to you to express my interest in the *Add support for Docker* project >> offered by Apache Software Foundation under* GSOC ‘18*. I would like to >> tell you that my research interest lies in the area of Distributed Systems, >> Cloud Computing, Data Mining, Data Science, Networks, and Security. >> >> *Background Information:* I have a prior industrial experience of 2+ >> years. I have worked as a Site Reliability Engineer at Adobe for the >> Marketing Cloud Product – Target. Few of my tasks were Product >> Releases/Deployments, Automation (Fabric/CFEngine/Bash/Python), rectifying >> issues in Production, Beta and Staging environment (JIRA), researching on >> and implementing new technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) related to the >> field. Also, I did few internships during my Bachelors and Masters, and I >> worked on infrastructure-as-code and played around Technologies - AWS, >> Docker, Kubernetes, Hadoop, Spark, Elasticsearch, Linux, Python, Raspberry >> Pi, CI/CD (Jenkins, Puppet), etc. I like to read about new technologies and >> the cutting-edge research that is going on related to my field. >> >> I am really excited about working on Add support for Docker project and I >> have the required skills and background to execute a well-finished project. >> I am very well experienced with Docker and containerized concepts and have >> a strong understanding and working knowledge of Linux fundamentals. Also, I >> have looked into the Tech Stack for ManifoldCF; I have worked with most of >> the technologies in my past work experience. >> >> *Questions:* >> 1. Guide me on how to start off. I am already going through the >> documentation. >> 2. Is there any IRC channel where I can collaborate with you and ask my >> questions. I checked the list provided by Apache Software Foundation but >> couldn't find the link for ManifoldCF (https://wiki.apache.org/gener >> al/IRC). >> >> It will be an honor to contribute towards Apache manifoldCF project and I >> am highly motivated to work on this project and start as soon as possible. >> I don't have any commitments for next summer. I am almost done with my >> masters and thus can work as many hours as I want. >> >> I am attaching my CV and transcript for your reference. >> Looking forward to your response. >> >> *Yours sincerely* >> Abhishek Kapoor >> Mobile: +49-15143586760 <+49%201514%203586760>, +91-9873703731 >> <+91%2098737%2003731> >> Linkedin <https://de.linkedin.com/in/kapoorabhishek24> >> > > > > -- > Piergiorgio Lucidi > https://www.open4dev.com > -- *Best Regards* Abhishek Kapoor Mobile: +49-15143586760, +91-9873703731 Linkedin <https://de.linkedin.com/in/kapoorabhishek24> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/kapoorabhishek24>
