From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 23 17:23:26 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6770575; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:23:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca) Received: from eccles.ee.ryerson.ca (eccles.ee.ryerson.ca [141.117.1.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D02E8FC08; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:23:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from webmail.ee.ryerson.ca (eccles [172.16.1.2]) by eccles.ee.ryerson.ca (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q9NGsGph011571; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:54:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca) Received: from 206.108.127.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user dmagda) by webmail.ee.ryerson.ca with HTTP; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:54:17 -0400 Message-ID: <5214043c002ef030f59c2045344b8725.squirrel@webmail.ee.ryerson.ca> In-Reply-To: <5086AC06.5070405@a1poweruser.com> References: <20121016101957.GB53800@FreeBSD.org> <20121022174457.GB59689@FreeBSD.org> <5086AC06.5070405@a1poweruser.com> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:54:17 -0400 Subject: Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too! From: "David Magda" To: "Fbsd8" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.22 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Wojciech A. Koszek" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:23:27 -0000 On Tue, October 23, 2012 10:39, Fbsd8 wrote: > > The subject is Google Code-In and all the posted tasks are directed at > creating documentation. Not one deals with coding any programs. If I was > 15-17 years old I sure would not be interested in writing documentation. > I would want to use and develop my coding skills. To that end there a > lot of simple PR's waiting for attention. This is an target area that > young coders would find more interesting. It would depend on what one's interests were. I've known a few technical writers over the years, and even if that is not one's long-term career objective, being paid to simply write is something a lot of people wouldn't mind doing. It's just that most writers don't hang out on Unix mailing lists. :)