Proposal Status : Final 

Name : Manav Sethi

Nick : insaanimanav

Packaging things and mantaining services

Synopsis

As a part of the second phase of FSF camp 2020 would like to work on two project proposals - Priority : Debian packaging > Sysadministration (I would still like to be a part of the sessions here)

• Debian Packaging
  • Currently dont have any specific packages in mind but I would like to learn how this works and package some small things as a part of the camp
• System administration ie deploying and mantaing free software services
  • As a part of this I would like to setup a cryptpad instance for fsci at something like pads.fsci.in and mantain it if we have enough server space .
  • Cryptpad doesnt really require that much ram for itself and works in a docker container as well . For example I run my own instance on a server with just 1 gb of ram which serves a bunch of other things as well

Benefits to the community

• Debian Packaging

  • Couple of more things would be available as a debian package atleast in my own repository if not the official ones

• System administration ie deploying and mantaing free software services

  • We could switch over a lot more people from guggal docs if we had a cryptpad instance as well
  • I could help mantain our existing services as well such as git.fosscommunity.in or meet.fsci.in or work on cryptpad

Deliverables

• Debian Packaging

  • Maybe a couple of debian packages or a single one and maybe adopt a package looking for love in another contributors repositories

• System Administration

  • A working cryptpad instance with regular updates and mantainence from yours truly
  • A new backup mantainer of any of our existing services

Biographical Information

• I am a second year student from Delhi who likes to play around with computers and learn more about them
• I interned at sflc.in as a syadmin for about 6 months
• I have been using various GNU/Linux Distributiions as my daily driver for more than an year now and I try to use free software tools wherever possible
• Regarding my projects I have done some Arch packaging before but that was just for the AUR and not in the main repos
• I selfhost some things for myself to move away from proprietary SaaS
  • pad.manav.co.in --> My cryptpad instance
  • cloud.manav.co.in --> My nextcloud
  • media.manav.co.in ---> My jellyfin server I also host some internal things and services just for myself for example
  • Transmission ---> A torrent client
  • Headphones --> Fetches and Mantains my music library
  • pi-hole ---> DNS + DHCP server which does dns level adblocking
• Here is my resume