From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 16 09:11:43 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DDA616A417 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:11:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dunceor@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39ADA13C51B for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:11:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dunceor@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so4244346pyb for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:11:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=xr/q7QtWDEI2Qtz+uUZp5ivl2qlWeAjHEOl2yNX7WCE=; b=azH1zbW+o/t6vW7XruOA7BLq9Klmml/Jid+X3kqIJk0vH1auOBXDLkj28qjVDqdoBeKcpoHQeukQ5OC+56Kb487uzAAXkDj0gFd8XEzKQATt1d4HSdI43lTPxxYHf9zG7JGjjynCoBu6colaHXsSQ16694f+2/x8oZwlY0Tpjok= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pOtZXQuQpWRGcjtjqKZhGwsEJqAUwmCcVHp4O0CbYow1yYGLDMF7ZQvsFJRJEnR1/oQBZBGJ3MG6JG9PzVs1lFN0rBi42nuAJYQiKST7y4I9/OO4Kxxdb/SKubsv3SQkIF9VNXXmhl9xg1eiU6Oq17mphhaas/EKZZOMSyAi9Do= Received: by 10.65.191.3 with SMTP id t3mr3698039qbp.1195204300868; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:11:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.150.20 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:11:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5d84cb30711160111k3fc0002dh51c3c68c51b47b55@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:11:40 +0100 From: "Karl Sjodahl - dunceor" To: "Fred Bertram" In-Reply-To: <473d5781.22528c0a.2758.0843@mx.google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <473d5781.22528c0a.2758.0843@mx.google.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Would like some simple volunteer work 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, 16 Nov 2007 09:11:43 -0000 On Nov 16, 2007 10:40 AM, Fred Bertram wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a cs student from Australia. > > Just want to enhance my skills and hopefully benefit this online software community in some way. I enjoy C programming in particular, havn't really mastered it or other languages. I'd like to practice by doing whatever though if anybody understands where i'm coming from. > > Is this a good place to do this? > > Cheers > > -- > *********************** > Frederick James Bertram > (08)93371109 > 10 Snook Crescent > Hilton 6163 > Western Australia > ----------------- > ***************** People to tend to mail this and ask what they can do to help. Easiest thing is just to check out the source, find what ever intrests you and start to hack. Check out the PR database and find and error and try and solve it. It's not gonna be fun if anybody tells you what to do, you need to find what you find fun to do and then just do it. br dunceor