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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">Dear Mattia,</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">Thanks for the
welcome and feedback.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">I like actively
being part of ambitious missions and in my view Debian is spot on
through the projects currently being worked on and maintained. The
projects that Debian is undertaking during the internship I believe
will greatly shape my career and knowledge in software development.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">After looking
through the skill set needed , I also saw a good fit for me here save
for a few other skills I may need to learn through the application
process especially getting comfortable with packaging. I will
endeavor I polish up before the deadline on some of them.</p><br>I was also drawn to
Debian pretty much due to the community. It is an engaging and easily
accessible one and to me this is very important. I was in touch with
people in this community even people I decided to apply for outreachy
who freely shared what they knew with me. I almost got tempted to
mention names but I wont:). A big thanks even in their anonymity.
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">I have an idea on
concurrent programming much using .net where I used to write banking
programs that would run simultaneously in windows services. Jobs like
unattended running of end of day processes for applications that ran
on top of core banking, automated end of day and bank statement
transmission through sending transaction files to utility companies
on a daily basis. These programs ran at the same time and
simultaneously and were self starting. I hope to learn much more as I
work with Debian.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;line-height:100%">
I would like to begin by working on this
<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814057">https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814057</a>
bug. You can walk me through how I can own a bug so that I don't
work on the same bug with some one else unknowingly and links to the
general work flow guidelines of submitting a patch the Debian way if
there are any things I need to note.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;line-height:100%">Kind
regards,</p>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Mattia Rizzolo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mattia@debian.org" target="_blank">mattia@debian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm not sure why the Reply-To header pointed to the list only, but afaik<br>
you are not subscribed, so I'll keep your address in the recipients.<br>
<br>
Also, you wrote to me privately the day before, but as public<br>
discussions are always better, I reply only to this :)<br>
<span class=""><br>
On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 06:09:35PM +0300, joannah nanjekye wrote:<br>
> My name is joannah from Uganda,Africa.I am an aeronautical engineering<br>
> student at the east African school of aviation.<br>
><br>
> I want to apply to Debian for the round 13 outreach internships.<br>
<br>
</span>sure, welcome! \o/<br>
<span class=""><br>
> Iam curious<br>
> and love learning things that a few people can master.<br>
<br>
</span>great thing that you love learning new things, but I really don't<br>
consider our work as something "few people can master", really ;)<br>
<span class=""><br>
> I want to contribute to reproducible builds during the internship with a<br>
> strong interest on diffoscope but I am very flexible.<br>
<br>
</span>that's great!<br>
Questions:<br>
* why did you chose Debian between all the organizations?<br>
* do you have any experience with concurrent programming? A long<br>
wanted feature of diffoscope for which we only have a working PoC (if<br>
I understood correctly it status) is parallel diffoscope, and I'm<br>
eagerly looking for anybody able to continue that work…<br>
<span class=""><br>
> Kindly advise on how I can get started contributing as I apply for the<br>
> outreach internship.<br>
<br>
</span>Given that you throw yourself over diffoscope, I'd say a first step for<br>
you could be to pick a bug (<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/src:diffoscope" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.debian.org/src:<wbr>diffoscope</a>) and<br>
try to fix it. Or, try the program and sends us any kind of<br>
improvements.<br>
<br>
For any question, you can ask in this mailing list<br>
(<a href="mailto:reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org">reproducible-builds@lists.<wbr>alioth.debian.org</a>), in the diffoscope ML<br>
(<a href="mailto:diffoscope@lists.reproducible-builds.org">diffoscope@lists.<wbr>reproducible-builds.org</a>), or on IRC<br>
(#debian-reproducible in OFTC).<br>
If you pick a mailing list, please subscribe to it.<br>
<br>
Thank you!<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
regards,<br>
Mattia Rizzolo<br>
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GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`.<br>
more about me: <a href="https://mapreri.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mapreri.org</a> : :' :<br>
Launchpad user: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~mapreri" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~mapreri</a> `. `'`<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><i><span style="font-family:Times New Roman"></span></i>Joannah Nanjekye<br>+256776468213<br></div>F : <span>Nanjekye Captain Joannah<br></span></div><span>S : joannah.nanjekye<br></span></div><span>T : @captainjoannah</span><br>SO : joannah<br><br><i><span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="color:#ff6600">"You
think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even
more when you can teach, but certain when you can program."</span> <br>
Alan J. Perlis</span></i></div></div>
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