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himadrics · 5 years

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My journey of getting selected as an Outreachy intern

If you don’t know what is Outreachy internship, first check out my post describing that here. In this post, I'm describing my journey of getting selected as an Outreachy intern for the Linux Kernel.

How I came to know about Outreachy?

Back in the days of my graduation, I attended a workshop to learn Python programming. During one of the sessions, the mentor mentioned about Google Summer of Code(GSoC) and Outreachy. He also encouraged the participants to check out previous projects offered by these internship programs and consider applying in the future. A shout out to Dharmit Shah for being a fantastic mentor.

Motivation for applying

I am fascinated with Operating Systems. I love trying different Linux distributions and I enjoy tweaking how my desktop looks and feels. I grew more interest in OS after attending the awe-inspiring course on it by Professor Khaleel Ur Rahman Khan of ACE Academy. Now at DAIICT, I actively contribute to the OS course for the Faculty Training Program(an initiative by the government of Gujarat to improve quality of technical education).

I’m a Linux enthusiast and I have been looking for ways to contribute to it. Hence, applying to the Linux kernel seemed like a perfect opportunity for me. Linux kernel has been evolving for more than two decades, comprises of millions of lines of code, has millions of users and supports numerous architectures. I was very excited about working on such a state of the art project with the diverse and experienced kernel community.

Challenges

I am enrolled in a full-time M.Tech program and I was taking 6 courses. So every day I was attending lectures till the afternoon and labs in the evenings. Moreover, I had 6 hours per week time commitment in afternoons for my Teaching Assistantship. Managing my academics and contributions for Outreachy was quite challenging. So in order to find more time to work on my contributions, I let go of my Teaching assistantship and reduced my sleeping hours.

Watch and learn

I learned about the application process and previous projects in my free time by checking out the codebase, IRC conversations and previous interns’ blog posts. I also subscribed to the outreachy-kernel mail list and contacted a few of the Outreachy alums to clarify my doubts regarding the application process. Thank you Alisha Aneja and Aishwarya Pant for taking the time to answer my questions.

Two of my friends have done internships with GSoC which is quite similar to Outreachy. I learned from their work too. Thank you Parthvi Vala and Umang Parmar for being an inspiration.

Getting started with the Linux kernel

I started early and submitted my first patch in January. It was intimidating to send patches to the public mail lists in the beginning. I made a few mistakes too. But every time I was corrected by community members in a polite and respectful way. I found it very encouraging and welcoming.

Before and during the application period, I submitted a few patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman’s staging tree. Working on these patches helped me to get familiar with the patch submission process. I also suggested including a few additional steps to the first patch tutorial for Manjaro/Arch Linux and a brief description of dependencies needed to build the kernel. I was encouraged to come up with content for that. Julia Lawall helped me by reviewing the content and granted me edit privilege for adding it to the tutorial. Later, I learned about the issue of missing of_node_puts from her. I worked on a few patches for that and submitted them to different subsystems of the Linux kernel. This way, I could interact with a few other members of the community.

Asking questions and Seeking help

Outreachy is a remote internship. So communication is the key. It is okay to not know something or struggle to understand. Mentors and other community members are always willing to help. You can learn from them only if you ask questions. It is also important to know when you’re really stuck and need help. Sometimes an extra set of eyes can spot something which you’ve missed even after trying really hard. Thank you Professor Amit Mankodi for helping me out when I was stuck.

Project Selection

While selecting the project, I checked if my laptop was able to meet the system requirements and if I was having a matching skill set required for the project. The Hyper-V project description stated that the task is to fix incorrect assumptions made by the current Linux code about the Linux guest VM’ page size being the same as the page size used by the Hyper-V hypervisor. I found it quite interesting. I also wanted to explore more about virtualization so I decided to learn more about this project.

I sent an introductory email to the mentor and asked for the directions to get started. He responded with instructions to set up the development environment and explanation about internship task in great detail. He also checked with me if I could understand it and encouraged me to ask questions if I had any doubts. He suggested me to learn about page size declarations and kernel’s memory allocation functions. After learning that, I started looking into the code and tried to identify possible issues. I discussed fixes for these issues with the mentor and he gave me more insights on that. I really enjoyed these discussions as I was learning many interesting and new things.

I also continued to work on staging patches for my project application. I spent most of my time in learning about the hyper-v project and working on Coccinelle challenge problems during the application period.

A note of thanks

Thank you to the organizers for always being responsive and clarifying my doubts. A special thanks to Julia Lawall and Vaishali Thakkar for reaching out to me when I needed help and guidance.

Concluding remarks

If you are an Outreachy aspirant and got any questions, especially regarding applying and contributing to the Linux kernel, I would be happy to help. You can find my contact details on the Contact page.

Outreachy is an excellent learning opportunity. You are not supposed to be an expert in order to apply. All you need is the willingness to put efforts and learn. Thank you for taking the time to read about my journey and I wish you all the best for yours.

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alvincommunitycollege · 8 years

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ACC Announces Fall 2016 Dean's and Merit List

Alvin Community College recognized students for making the Fall 2016 Dean’s and Merit Lists during a reception on February 13.

To be eligible for the Dean’s list students must earn at least a 3.5 grade point average for 12 or more credit hours in a semester and no course with a grade lower than a C. To be eligible for the Merit List, a student must have 7 – 11 college-level semester hours during a semester with a minimum 3.5 GPA with no F or incomplete. College-level courses exclude credit-by-exam, nontraditional, transfer, or developmental courses.

The full Dean’s List recipients are: Juan Aguirre, Zachary Aldmon, Hannah Aldridge, Mohammad Alom, Daisy Alvarado, Donald Anderson, Kirsten May Andrade, Johnson Appiah, Jessie Arce, Yesenia Arenas, Rylee Arnold, Jordan Bagwell, Kelsey Barba, Taylor Barrow, Eva Bartley, Cassandra Mae Batang, Jerry Beasley, Alex Begnaud, Emery Bennett, Drew Bennett, Grant Bentley, Scott Berardi, Kane Berger, Alyssa Bergeron, Zachary Bernal, Dustin Bernatovich, Stephen Bishop, Victoria Bitner, Madison Bochard, Paul Boddy, Jared Bolton, Joseph Booth, Braedon Boznango, Natasha Braun, Taylor Broussard, Ruth Brown, Zara Burns, Bridget Byrd, Marc Cardenas, Raya Carr, Luis Carrillo, Dale Carrion, Guadalupe Castaneda, Dalia Castelan, Cayla Caster, Chelsea Catching, Cynthia Cedillo, Toni Chavez, Mica Chenier, Rachel Christodoss, William Clark, William Clifford, Freyja Coe, Nathan Comeaux, Cristian Cornejo, Meagan Crisp, Karlie Crow, Brandon Cuddihy, William Dahlstrom, Kaitlyn Dahlstrom, Cole Dahlstrom, My Dang, Jeffrey Davidson, Adriana Davila, Egla Delrioaguillon, Christopher Detorre, Cody Dewar, Raul Diaz, Nephtali Diaz, Katherine Dillard, Chase Dillman, Michael Dinsdale, Cheyenne Dornelles, Andrew Dotson, Adrienne Dover, Amanda D'Souza, Amber Eastham, Zachary Edwards, Kaitlyn Elder, Esther Erfan, Christopher Erickson, Adam Erlewein, John Evans, Karsten Fagan, Jennifer Fakharizadeh, Yecenia Fernandez, Clinton Fewell, Victoria Flannory, Tristan Flores, Jaecen Foytik, Timothy Franke, Scott Frankovich, Alyssa Frausto, James Freitag, Nathan Fuchs, Mallory Gaddis, JoLee Galetka, Marlena Gana, Soledad Garcia, Ryan Garner, Hector Garza, Brooklyn Garza, Bakari Gayle, Julia Glasgow, Stephen Glasgow, Mallory Glover, Rosemary Gonzalez, Stephan Good, Leslie Gordon, Signe Gostomski, Victor Gostomski, Esther Granados, Laurel Gray, Sophia Graziosi, Isabella Graziosi, Ariana Green, Bobbye Green, Emily Greenough, Evan Griffin, Marissa Grimes, Jonathan Guerrero, Emily Guidry, Brandon Hagood, Kayleigh Hanchey, Liam Haney, Joshua Hargett, Syeda Hasnain, Matthew Hernandez, William Hill, Kathryn Hoelter, Jared Holston, Hunter Honish, Lioubov Hooks, Terri Hubbard, Dayna Hudson, Ahamad Huff, Edgar Ibarra, Sarah Jackson, Leann James, Stuart Johnson, Sally Johnson, Allison Jones, Austin Jordan, Matthew Jrab, Neida Juarez, Cody Karstedt, Sara Khan, Jessica Kuntz, Stephen Labeth, Christian Lagunas, Christopher Lam, Mai Le, Anh Le, Travis Lemoine, Marianel Liga, Claudia Limon, Meiling Lin, Peng Lin, Aaron Linden, Skyler Little, Lisa Lopez, David Lovejoy, Teresa Lozano, Brittany Luke, Timothy Lute, Samantha Maddox, Charles Maldonado, Aaron Kyle Manio, Linda Manyida, Kaitlyn Manzanaris, Claire Marsh, Kara Martin, Jessica Martinez, Victoria Martinez, David Mbange, Wyatt Mccann, Kimberly Mcclain, Kelci McClary-Davis, Byran McDaniels, Elizabeth McDonald, Courtney McGregor, Jeremy McKinney, Alex McLeister, Christopher McQueen, Esteban Medrano, Rylan Meek, Mark Mejia, Gabrielle Melchor, Sarah Melenric, Beatriz Merida, Joshua Miles, Alexander Miller, Mandi Mitchell, Alicia Moreno, Alyssa Morton, Victoria Motes, Megan Myers, Josie Naval, Elizabeth Navarrete, Thanh Nguyen, Tien Nguyen, Kelly Nguyen, Brittany Nguyen, Achim Noack, Leah Noworyta, Tracey Oldham, James Oliver, Luke Olson, Chukwunonso Omeili, Jasmine Onyemachi, Danielle Ortiz, Gabriela Oxford, Amaya Padgett, Jose Padilla, Kayla Palmer, Victoria Palomarez, Neisha Pander, Juan Parkin, Lloyd Pate, Hiral Patel, Mary Patterson, Hailey Paulk, Christopher Perez, Jocelin Perez, Jacob Pitts, Maxx Pizzitola, Blake Powitzky, James Pugh, Jolan Pyland, Daniel Ramirez, Jesse Ramirez, Austin Redwine, Dustin Reeser, Anthony Reid, Steven Reyes, Luis Rodriguez, Jason Rogers, Michael Anthony Rohland, Roy Romano, Linda Rubenak, Amber Rushing, Michael Saladiner, Gabrielle Salinas, Lauren Santos, Laura Schindler, Zachary Schnitzer, Andrew Schueneman, Taylor Sengphanlaya, Savannah Serrato, Michael Shakin, Britney Sharp, Mallory Sherer, Weston Siemens, Noah Sills, Ashley Slaughter, Kirsten Slovak, Marcy Smith, Evetta Soma, Shauna Squyres, William Stanaland, Dorcas Starcke, Joshua Stearns, Austin Stephens, Jeffery Stewart, Richard Stillman, Jared Streeter, Nicolas Sudderth, Brittney Surber, Michael Swope, Sophia Lauren Talavera, Preston Tao, Nathan Tarket, James Thompson, Frances Tibia, Abigail Tiemann, Nicholas Trinh, Christopher Trochesset, Madison Troxlar, Matthew Tucker, Ernest Umandap, Victoria Van, Daniel Varghese, Hope Vavich, Sara Vera, Marisah Villarreal, Melanie Walker, Kaina West, Emily Wheeler, Krista Whitehead, Travis Wiggins, Zayne Willems, Tysheria Williams, Sarah Williams, Lori Williamson, Jordan Wix, Layla Wolken, Sarah Woods, Sara Yan, Katherine Yuchnewicz and Jinle Zhang.

The full Merit List recipients are: Sheila Agim, Emily Aguiar, Christopher Alanis, Edera Alexander, Stacy Allen, Samuel Allison, Leonie Almeida, Kaleb Anderson, Blake Anderson, Kinsey Anderson, Alexia Andrade, Sheikinna Ang, Sunny Angst, Jael Anorga, Maryline Anyaso, Kathy Arenas, Abigail Armesto, Maida Arredondo, Marissa Arredondo, Jose Arreola, Juan Arzate, Denise Aviles, Yessenia Ayala, Madison Ayres, Kendall Baker, David Banda, Rosa Barron, Kenneth Bartholomew, Kamya Bates, Alyssa Battad, Victoria Bedar, Kathryn Bell, Beth Benge, Alokika Bhakta, Kristin Binford, Luke Black, Charlcie Blackmon, Cassidy Bodden, Bailey Bradley, Hannah Bransom, Alisha Brown, Angela Brown, Mary Brown, Breanna Burgess, Kamden Burke, Faith Butts, Brenda Camargo, Justin Campbell, Kirlice Carr-Lett, Sasha Casiano, Vicente Castellanos, Jeffrey Castillo, Korinne Cathey, Wendy Chapin, McKaylee Chapman, Ashlee Chappell, Laura Chebetar, Kelly Childers, Rachel Clark, Lynze Clayton, Ashley Collins, Brandon Conner, 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