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On 12/15/2013 09:59 AM, Ajay Phogat wrote:
> Extremely sorry I could reply back, I had my vacations and was away on
> leave.
> 
> Sure, I'll do try to come in contact with the current developers as to know
> how I can contribute. Thanks a lot for your help and time. Have a great
> time!
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Julie Pichon <jpichon at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ajay,
>>
>> "Ajay Phogat" <letsgotry7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello, all!
>>>
>>> I am a student of Computer Science and have learnt some basics of
>> OpenStack
>>> for implementing one of my projects in college. While learning about
>>> OpenStack, I came to know about the metering project, ceilometer.
>>>
>>> I would love to contribute to ceilometer, which according to
>>> ohloh<http://www.ohloh.net/p?ref=homepage&q=ceilometer> has
>>> 88 contributors presently. Also, I wanted to participate in Google Summer
>>> of Code while being associated with ceilometer. I wanted to know if
>>> contributing to ceilometer can be a valid project for GSoC.
>>
>> Thanks for your interest in OpenStack and Ceilometer, that's great! Many
>> members of the community were away in Hong Kong for the OpenStack Summit
>> last
>> week, sorry for the delay.
>>
>> OpenStack has never participated in GSoC before - we never quite managed to
>> match the organisation requirements in time for the deadline. Maybe this
>> will
>> change next year but I wouldn't necessarily count on it. I still encourage
>> you
>> to get involved with the community even outside of a program like GSoC.
>> There's
>> a lot of things we could use your help with!
>>
>> Maybe a current Ceilometer contributor can point you toward a suitable
>> first
>> task, in the meantime there's a lot of information you can read about to
>> get
>> yourself started contributing: see [0] to learn the general OpenStack
>> contribution guidelines, [1] for finding something small to work on that
>> you
>> find interesting, [2] to get an OpenStack dev environment set up in a VM.
>>
>> Consider also popping by on IRC [3], on #openstack-metering for Ceilometer
>> related questions and #openstack-101 if you encounter any hiccup getting
>> started contributing. There are lots of people happy to help and guide you!
I think that between the time this post was first composed and now,
there is a new irc channel for Ceilometer discussions:
#openstack-ceilometer, which is also mentioned in the topic of the
#openstack-metering channel.

Thanks,
Anita.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Julie
>>
>> [0] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HowToContribute
>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ceilometer/
>> [2] http://devstack.org/
>> [3] https://wiki.openstack.org/IRC
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for your time and effort!
>>>
>>>
>>> Ajay Phogat
>>
> 
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