[olug] Open source project contributors.

[Rob Townley]

SourceForge itself is pretty tricky and getting more involved and
complicated, but well worth it to be familiar with the ins and outs of sf.
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On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Jason Zeisler <superztnt at gmail.com> 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.netat
> > 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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> 1.) Post very very very small code and doc changes to make it
> extremely easy for a committer to check in to the repository.  Builds
> up a trust relationship with the committers.
>
> 2.) If you post code, try to follow the coding practices used in the
> rest of the project.
>
> 3.) Use the sf.net monitoring forum feature to keep your head in the game.
>