Good Evening. This is a first draft of point 1 and 2 of the GSoC organization application: 1. About CentOS: CentOS stands for Community ENTerprise Operating System [1]. It is an operating system that is based on the publicly available source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux which is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License and other open licenses. The CentOS releases are very similar to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and tries to be 100% binary compatible with the upstream product. Artwork and other Red Had trademarks are removed, because Red Hat does not allow them to be used for redistribution [2]. In comparison with Red Hat's binary enterprise distribution, CentOS is freely available for download and use. As most enterprise distributions, CentOS does not contain the latest cutting-edge software, but several software repositories hold later versions and additional packages. [1] http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=2 [2] https://www.redhat.com/about/companyprofile/trademark/ 2. Why are we applying to be an GSoC organization? We are applying to become an GSoC organization because we would welcome help with improving the build process and end user experience of the CentOS projects. There are many aspects of the distribution like package management, ... Best Regards Marcus