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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:42:15 +0200
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To: siraj kutlusan <defcon8@gmail.com>
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On 2005-03-21 17:28, siraj kutlusan <defcon8@gmail.com> wrote:
> This may sound like a silly question but do the FreeBSD kernel
> developers come form all around the world or are they only in one
> place?

All over the world.

> And if they are all around the world. Do you need any special
> qualifications to become one?

Good knowledge of C and a relatively good level of familiarity with UNIX
tools like make is an absolute must have.  Contributions, in the form of
patches that fix known issues or add useful features to the kernel, are
the next thing.

See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/
for details about possible ways that you can contribute to FreeBSD in
general :-)

- Giorgos