This post is the second introduction to the Fedora Summer Coding interns Class of Summer 2019. In this interview, we’ll meet Alisha Mohanty and Shraddha Agrawal, who are both working on Fedora Happiness Packets to promote positive feedback loops in the Fedora community.

About Happiness Packets

Fedora Happiness Packets is a fork of happinesspackets.io. The goals of the forked site are as follows:

1. fedora-happiness-packets is a fork: The upstream project is also active and still in use. As a considerate downstream, if a change could also help upstream, we should direct changes there.
2. fedora-happiness-packets supports changes required for deployment in Fedora community: Changes to fedora-happiness-packets should generally be Fedora-specific. This includes fedora-messaging support, Fedora-related design changes, or integrating into other parts of the Fedora community.
3. Good code is tested code: Introducing new code means introducing new tests. If writing code that could be tested, it is code that should be tested.

The overall purpose of Fedora Happiness Packets is to celebrate the accomplishments and achievements by our colleagues, fellow contributors, and friends by letting them know of our appreciation for them.

Alisha Mohanty: Fedora Happiness Packets

Alisha Mohanty (alishapapun/freaky_mortal) is working on Fedora Happiness Packets. She was selected for Outreachy Summer 2019.

We asked Alisha a few questions as she prepares for her next three months working with the FHP mentor team: Justin W. Flory, Jona Azizaj, Alberto Rodríguez Sánchez, Anxhelo Lushka, and Sachin Kamath.

Tell us a bit about yourself!

I am B-Tech student from Odisha, India pursuing engineering degree from College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar. I strongly believe dreams can be fulfilled by breaking it into smaller tasks and working on it consistently. I believe in understanding people before casting my own judgement and will.

How did you hear about Outreachy?

From Twitter.

What caught your attention about Fedora? How does it align with your personal interests?

Fedora as an open source community is very well known for its friendliness to the new comers and encourages a wide range of participation from people especially students. From the very introduction of operating system, I was anxious to know more about it. While surfing the internet, to know more about it, I came to know about Fedora community and it being open source. It caught my attention and I planned to contribute to something.

What are you looking forward to most during this Outreachy round?

I am looking forward to explore more projects in Fedora that align my interest.

Where do you see yourself after you complete this Outreachy round?

I plan to see myself as a confident programmer, being able to write clean and readable code and proficient in Django.

Who is your favorite Marvel superhero / superheroine?

Captain America.

Shraddha Agrawal: Fedora Happiness Packets

Shraddha Agrawal (shraddhaag) is also working on Fedora Happiness Packets. She was selected for Outreachy Summer 2019.

We also asked Shraddha a few questions as she prepares for her next three months working with the FHP mentor team: Justin W. Flory, Jona Azizaj, Alberto Rodríguez Sánchez, Anxhelo Lushka, and Sachin Kamath.

Tell us a bit about yourself!

I am a second year undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Surat studying Bachelors of Electronic and Communication Engineering. I am a creative spirit, who loves to make elegant and innovative solutions to everyday life problems more accessible to everyone.

How did you hear about Outreachy?

I am part of LinuxChix India user group based in Delhi, India. Last year, when I attended their meetup for the first time Shivangi Bharadwaj, a previous Outreachy alum, mentioned about this opportunity when I asked her about how could I get into FOSS development.

What caught your attention about Fedora? How does it align with your personal interests?

From the plethora of things Fedora does best, the thing I love the most about Fedora is its community. Hands down, its the best Open Source community I have had the chance to work with. 🙂

What are you looking forward to most during this Outreachy round?

I am looking forward to learning in abundance while working with the best set of people!

Where do you see yourself after you complete this Outreachy round?

I hope to carry forward active community involvement and contribution way beyond this internship period.

Who is your favorite Marvel superhero / superheroine?

Mr. Stark. :'( Endgame did not fare well with me (just like a million other geeks ’round the globe).

Anything you want to add?

I would like to acknowledge the immense help and guidance my mentors Justin and Jona have provided me. Their constant encouragement really helped me along during my application period. 🙂

Thanks and good luck to Alisha and Shraddha as they begin their project work this week!