From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 16:28:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0095016A4CE; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:28:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E51343D68; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:28:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:31:10 -0600 Message-ID: <41AF42CA.9000001@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:28:58 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041023 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cezar Fistik References: <000901c4d83f$b6cffdc0$6401a8c0@dylan> <01c701c4d887$7a25f8f0$33a11ad9@office.arax.md> In-Reply-To: <01c701c4d887$7a25f8f0$33a11ad9@office.arax.md> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Dec 2004 16:31:11.0011 (UTC) FILETIME=[553A1F30:01C4D88C] cc: advocacy@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: dvnicolini@comcast.net cc: phk@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open-Source project X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:28:44 -0000 [Please forgive the cross-posting to advocacy, and the possibility that this is no longer questions material, and any personal affronts :-) ] From: "Dylan Nicolini" Dear Sir: I am very eager to contribute to the FreeBSD project. Currently, I am a Junior in college, majoring in Computer Science. I believe in the theory of open source very strongly, and I would love the oppurtunity to contribute to this project. If there are any suggestions on where to start I am very open to anything. Dylan Nicolini Cezar Fistik wrote: >Hi Dylan, > >I believe this kind of questions has been answered here thousands of times. >Anyway, open source is a term with a very broad meaning, but if you are >interested to contribute to FreeBSD, this could be a good starting point. > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html > >Regards, >Cezar > > Hi, Cezar, Dylan: The "contributing" article on the site is great. I just had to add the following, though (I hope it's under the BSD copyright ;-) Scott Long (of the R.E. team) posted a message to hackers@ yesterday entitled "My project wish-list for the next 12 months". Lots of technical stuff, but enlightening, rather bold; good stuff. I was especially impressed, however, by Poul-Henning Kamp's response, and as it was directed at "non techies", under the copyright ideals of the BSD license, I'd like to repost it here ... [keep in mind this is from PHK, a FreeBSD Developer, and not me. I loved it, though]: PHK> I agree on all of the above but I think we also PHK> need to have things on the list that doesn't take super PHK> hackers, and architectural reviews. So let us add the PHK> following points which I think are just as, if not more PHK> important for FreeBSDs future: PHK> 7. More people writing FreeBSD related articles for PHK> online and traditional media. If you have never written PHK> a piece about FreeBSD, how about sending something PHK> to your local IT trade rag ? Heck, even your local paper PHK> will probably run it if you send them a piece. PHK> 8. More people stomping for FreeBSD in universities and PHK> schools. Have you actually offered the science/IT teachers PHK> at the local hi-school to pop around and give a lesson on PHK> this open source phenomena to their pupils ? Or call your PHK> local college and ask if they need a teaching assistant for PHK> their evening courses in IT ? PHK> 9. A band of happy 1st line reponders dealing with PRs etc. PHK> We're getting better at this, but one way to really gain users PHK> is to help them when they need it most: right when they begin. PHK> 10. A more dynamic and interesting www.freebsd.org frontpage. PHK> Come on, at least we should be able to beat the "Congressional Record" PHK> when it comes to being interesting. PHK> 11. More people attending BSDcon conferences. Come to BSDcan2005! PHK> come to the next EuroBSDcon or AsiaBSDcon. Or make your own mini PHK> conference! Many Linux User groups would welcome you if you offered PHK> to give a talk about FreeBSD on one of their evenings. PHK> PHK> 12. Research/Coding grants (3/6/12 months) from the FreeBSD Foundation PHK> and other deep(er) pockets to help some of the heavy lifting happen. PHK> We're not only in it for the money, but money surely helps. PHK> And I'd like to stress that none of the above requires you to get permission PHK> from the core team, just go out and do it! Certainly, Dylan, #8 sounds right down your line; probably #9, #7 too. If I remember college correctly, I didn't have much cash, so #12 is out currently; but I think some of the conferences (#11) even have discounted rates for students ;-) Anyway, welcome to FreeBSD --- I'm sure you can find many ways to help --- and it sounds like all of them would be appreciated by many, and by many of those with whom it might count the most. Kevin Kinsey