[olug] Open source project contributors.

[Dave Thacker]

On Friday 03 April 2009 18:37:40 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?

I've done documentation, testing and minor cosmetic commits for the Tikiwiki 
project.  I've worked (and am still working) as the Ubuntu Nebraska LoCo Team 
admin.  I'm also working on a text base soccer game called ESMS.  

If you're looking to help with Ubuntu, sign up for a launchpad account(1) and 
start answering questions(2) and triaging(3) the bug list.  They are always 
looking for help, and will give you a lot of guidance along the way.

Jump right in!  The water is fine!

Dave 

(1) https://launchpad.net/
(2) https://help.launchpad.net/Answers
(3) http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs