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To: Fude Yao <fyao@wilde.oit.umass.edu>
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 	My name is Fude Yao.  I am a Master student at Univ. of Massachusetts
> and am very interested in joining the freebsd 
> team.  I have many years of programming experience and I took 22 credits 
> of courses at UMass.  My Math background is very soild.  Hope I can 
> contribute to this project.  I am interested in adding Chinese Processing
> Capability to this package, too.

Do you currently run FreeBSD?  Do you have reasonable access to the
net so that you can receive and run updated code (freebsd-current)?
These are fairly important prerequisites for anyone wishing to
actively develop for FreeBSD on a broad scale.  Adding comprehensive
Chinese character support would be a fairly extensive undertaking,
hence my concern.

If you have the access and can run FreeBSD-current on a development
machine, then I'd say that the next step would be to simply start
discussing your proposed changes with us.

Thanks!

					Jordan