From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 22 18:28:36 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C5521065673 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:28:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 65-241-43-5.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C560B15098A; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:28:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4DB1C8CC.4060803@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:28:28 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110326 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Lorentz References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Looking for resources to get started X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:28:36 -0000 On 04/22/2011 10:58, Robert Lorentz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm very interested in getting started with FreeBSD development. My interests are wide but specifically core OS, performance, scheduling, cryptography, perhaps filesystems etc. > > I have seen the "Ideas" list and there is some good stuff there but those are fairly complex/large tasks. Where can I find something more basic to address to get myself familiar with the process of contributing? > > My motivation for contributing is to learn more about the FreeBSD kernel and core OS and to put my skills toward FreeBSD which I find interesting and worthwhile. I am knowledgable in C, scheduling, data interface, somewhat also in cryptography One project that I'd very much like to see support for is truecrypt: http://www.truecrypt.org/ That will combine several of the interests that you mentioned above. Good luck, Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/