[olug] Open source project contributors.

[David Walker]

I have been active in development and in message board support for the
OpenACS project.

I am sure it varies by project but, with the ones I have been involved
in, no experience is required to begin but there isn't necessarily a lot
of support either. You dive in and begin doing what you are interested
in and then submit back to the project. The project manager(s) review
your work and determine if it is worthy to be included.

To be a programmer, download a project and determine something it needs,
develop it and submit it. If the team doesn't approve your updates, you
can always release a custom version on your web site.

To be a tester, download and start using the project and submit bug
reports. Then if you express interest in being an official tester, they
will be able to review your bug reports.

The best advice I can give you is to dive in and build a reputation by
doing good things.

Jason Zeisler wrote:
> Has anyone been involved in an open source project? This could have been as
> a programmer, tester, packaging, or whatever. What kinds of projects have
> you worked on? What was your experience like? I was looking at Ubuntu's
> website to see how to contribute to the project and at sourceforge.net at
> projects that are looking for contributors, but I wanted to get some insight
> before I volunteered. I have no professional experience as a developer but I
> would love to contribute. How about OLUG, are there any software projects
> going on here?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jason Z.
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