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From: hiren panchasara <hiren@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Newcomers page
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+ pfg to see if he has any inputs as he works actively with newcomers.

On 03/14/16 at 11:31P, hiren panchasara wrote:
> I see many kids (specially during GSoC time) come to hackers and ask:
> "I am very enthusiastic and know C/C++, xyz and completely new to FreeBSD
> but want to contribute. Where do I start? What should I do?"
>=20
> Is there a page which can provide answer to this question so we can
> point them to the page?
>=20
> I found
> https://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html =20
>=20
> It'd be nice if we could add:=20
> 0) -questions and -hackers maling-lists as starting point for help.
> 1) list of ircs that we hangout in on EFNet: bsddev, bsdmips,
> freebsd-gsoc, freebsd-git
> 2) bugzilla and how to search for interested keywords or bugs with patches
> 3) Ideas wiki page
>=20
> Just my 2c.

Cheers,
Hiren

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