From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 2 14: 6:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E008B37B40A for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:06:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F97BBCFB; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:06:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA06210; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:06:10 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fA2M4Vs54285; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:04:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Nathan Mace Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: question: best way to help References: <20011101224831.4f297c40.nmace85@yahoo.com> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 02 Nov 2001 14:04:30 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20011101224831.4f297c40.nmace85@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <7wg07wde35.07w@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nathan Mace writes: > i'm looking for some way for me to contribute to the Freebsd project. > i'm not a programmer and i don't have any hardware/money available to > donate. i don't and can't run -CURRENT....is there anything i could > help out with besides documentation? You could lurk in other forums (and use groups.google.com) and occasionally and politely defend FreeBSD or let people know about it. (I wish I knew more about it than the name earlier than I did.) You could exercise software (system and ports) and write PRs and work with people in mailing lists to resolve your, and other, PRs. You could organize a standard scheme to easily submit PRs for non- FreeBSD software (that in most ports and some system stuff like dhclient). You'd maybe maintain a list of programs with their maintainer's bug email address, or something like that. You could bug hardware and software producers to support FreeBSD. You could send FreeBSD-related announcements and other info to e-magazine reporters. You should consult with some FreeBSD core before doing this unless you're very clear that you're not "official". And, of course, there's no end to what you could do for web sites and documentation, but you did say "besides" that. You could maintain lists of things like this (or software for which FreeBSD PRs are accepted, or feature requests, or FreeBSD web sites, or...) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message