[olug] Open source project contributors.

[Tim & Alethea Larson]

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 had patches accepted to the lynx browser, and since that module was 
borrowed by links as well, I was working on to port it over there too. 
Nothing major, just the translation table to display Unicode using 7-bit 
chars.

I've packaged some stuff for pkgsrc, and help various projects I'm 
interested in with portability issues between platforms.


Tim


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