the-linux-foundation – Aniruddha Basak

LFX Mentorship (previously known as Community Bridge) is a platform developed by the Linux Foundation, which promotes and accelerates the adoption, innovation, and sustainability of open-source software.

LFX Mentorship is actively used by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) as a mentorship platform across the CNCF projects

Program Schedule

2022 — Fall Term — September 1st – Nov 30th

2022 — Summer Term — June 1st – August 31st (My Term)

2022 — Spring Term — March 1st – May 31st

How to Apply

You have to write the Cover Letter and mention all the points about why you are interested in the projects and any previous work you have done or not and what you expect from the project etc.

Tip: Start contributing early and talk to the maintainers about your interests in the program and start to discuss the issue/feature you are going to work on.

My Project

My Project is Cluster API Provider for GCP(CAPG). It is a CNCF Project that helps manage the Kubernetes cluster in the Google Cloud Platform. Currently, another provider Cluster API Provider for AWS(CAPA), Cluster API Provider for Azure(CAPZ) has the support for taking advantage of GPU in their cluster but CAPG doesn’t have so Me and Subhasmita my co-mentee will work on the project to add support for GPU in the CAPG.

My Mentors

Carlos Panato (@cpanato)
Davanum Srinivas (@dims)
Richard Case (@richardcase)

My Co-Mentee

Subhasmita Swain

Well, my journey would be a little monotonous if I didn’t have a co-mentee. It makes my work a little interesting because when we are both stuck on anything we hope on a call and discuss things. Also the weekly work we divide each other and teach each other what we have learned.

How It All Started

I didn’t have any plan to do LFX from the beginning. I started my journey with CAPG for GSoC”22. I applied for the same project and the same feature in the GSoC but that didn’t happen because the project didn’t get selected in the GSoC eventually all the applications to the project got rejected as well. So I talked to the maintainer Richard and told them that can I work in the GPU work as I was very interested in it. He told me that there is still hope in the LFX Mentorship and he opened an application there and I applied there. And then I got selected for the LFX Mentorship 🎉

How It Is Going

I was a little bit worried about how I will work on a big project like this where there are thousands of lines of code and me just a written a project with a max of 500 lines. But I am amazed how the maintainers made my journey very easy and got me onboarded with the introduction to the project for a couple of weeks and gave me small tasks of trying things out and asking a question if I am stuck at any point.