Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:58:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Venkatesh <ashtitte@satyam.net.in> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, raj_nat@hotmail.com Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910140950540.46069-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <000b01bf1641$0a1fba40$462a90ca@venky>
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On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Venkatesh wrote: > Hi I am a software professional and would like to work on software > projects for free. This will give me hands on experience and a chance > to prove my capabilities to the world. Interested people get in touch > with me at raj_nat@hotmail.com Doesn't work that way, no one is ever going to come after you. First, just being a "software professional" won't help too much, unless you know unix pretty well (Windows just isn't going to help at all). What you want to do is go to www.freebsd.org, and buried in there is a list of things that folks might want to try. Alternatively, if you don't like to try one of the things you find, then just try out FreeBSD until you find something you think needs improvement, and go at it. If you're looking at doing something substantial, you might want to sound people out on the FreeBSD-hackers list, to see if it's got some likely chance of being accepted ... but understand one thing: you can't get any agreement, before the software is written, that your work will be committed. That kind of thing ONLY comes when there's real software to look at, and people can judge if it's a useful thing, and written to sufficiently good standards. Take a look at FreeBSD source code yourself, you'll see what I mean. Oh, one last thing, you've addressed the wrong list here, FreeBSD-doc is dedicated to the process of building the documentation, and not technical programming issues. You wanted, probably, FreeBSD-hackers. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C programming, Electronics, 213 Lakeside Dr. Apt. T-1 | communications, and signal processing. Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD-current(i386) and (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD-current(Alpha) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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