Hi, Let me quickly grap the opportunity to introduce myself. I am a Master of Science(FOSS) student from India . I have completed my project Hepunion filesystem with CERN last summer. You can find more details about me and my project here https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/disd... I would like to tell a little bit about this project so as to let the community know about my skill sets- Hepunion filesystem is a stackable filesystem I was developing for CERN( the European Organization for Nuclear Research). CERN needs a Union filesystem for LHCb(Large Hadron Collider Beauty) to provide fast diskless booting for LHCb's nodes. For such an implementation, they need a file system with two branches a Read-Write and a Read Only so they decided to write a completely new union file system called Hepunion. The filesystem is stable till 2.6.34 kernel as of now and is being planned to upgraded to newer kernel versions. Now this year also I want to participate in a linux based project. As per my discussion with Saurabh Sood, I came across the project "Better Cloud images with KIWI" . I would like to contribute to this project so as to learn new things and contribute to the OpenSuse Community. I would like to admit that I am a novice in Perl since major amount of my work has been limited to kernel space so I am basically a C programmer though I have written scripts in Perls for automation and testing. I have worked on Embedded Systems(both ARM and X86) and have worked on projects like Linux From Scratch so have some better understanding of concepts involved in Linux Boot Process. Kindly let me know the prerequisites needed to contribute to this project so that I can apply for the same as a GSOC Project for 2014. Regards, Saket Sinha -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org