From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 16 09:14:02 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 D9FD516A420 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:14:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9531313C468 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:14:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so737780nzf for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:13:54 -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=ULKeNHqk5EuX1OJ6m6vg0zusHZhkC923NoFgjNn4g34=; b=JMPRad4FEK9/TLaZcUR0k2mhc1HUG91n1OQdFyTgcKR1vjMLFtEqw6kBL31bH9/5/B+K7P03o35zn8bfYfhwuF+7VLjmIKWPktWDopRwCxY01VqsiofN1Xyc9qwcXKaybkGrNFPDuR3870FRq7Li2aK1bW5zg2dhA688JGyAI9g= 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=Mh/RVdx0wzHrzsoSFAkdlSCHqbztniHru2dZ6gQlRTM/frWhZ6Y1XMpN4Y4w660zkc3vOYStpc2WT/8y7IMiR9eGjRFtmsOT/yp/+qm2v2hNyoy/9Z7UDfrASCjIdxTnDLEsYatMArNlirPnvAK3KUHTDiQGCZY5Y3//OHkn/dw= Received: by 10.142.239.11 with SMTP id m11mr526463wfh.1195204433758; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:13:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.230.18 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:13:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:13:53 -0800 From: "Kip Macy" To: "Karl Sjodahl - dunceor" In-Reply-To: <5d84cb30711160111k3fc0002dh51c3c68c51b47b55@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <473d5781.22528c0a.2758.0843@mx.google.com> <5d84cb30711160111k3fc0002dh51c3c68c51b47b55@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Fred Bertram 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 09:14:02 -0000 On Nov 16, 2007 1:11 AM, Karl Sjodahl - dunceor wrote: > 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 > The PR database is really the best place to start if you're really interested in helping. There are lots of small tasks there. -Kip