Re: [OT]: Sort-of. What's the best way to "contribute"
Barry -
I'm in a similar situation, I guess.
I too have been hanging around Sourceforge, but in my case have hooked onto a
couple of projects, even if I feel I can't contribute what I want to contribute,
yet - in the hope that it will push me where I want to go. In my case, I'm
trying to wed my rediscovered interest in astronomy to my desire to push myself
in the realm of programming/Linux/Unix.
Another thing that has helped has been landing a couple of freelance editing
gigs. I've worked on books I probably "shouldn't have" been working on, but my
luck has been good: they've been -really good books- and that has helped push me
to get the knowledge I needed to be a good editor.
Me, I need to have an 'ulterior motive' to help get me through the stuff that,
on it's own, ain't that much fun to learn. That's what spurred me in learning
human languages ... I'm hoping it will work with computer languages!
Maybe not the best answer, but I didn't want to ignore your post! ;-)
Glenn Becker
On Wed, 16
Oct 2002, deFreese, Barry wrote:
> Since my posts usually get ignored we'll see what happens with this one. :-)
>
> Since I don't have a great deal of money yet (When I win the lottery I
> promise to send big checks to Debian and Samba!! :-) ) what is the best way
> to contribute to the open source community? I've poked around on
> sourceforge to see if I could lend a hand but many of the projects that I
> found are probably a little over my head at this juncture. The initiative
> here is two-fold.
>
> One is selfish. I figure by contributing that I can continue to expand my
> knowledge. The other being that I find the whole open source community
> fascinating and I would really like to contribute. Unfortunately, at this
> point I am a newbie so I may be jumping the gun here a little but I like to
> dive in. I would really like to dive into the programming aspect
> (specifically in C) but don't have a great deal of C experience either. I
> have done quite a bit in VB, VBScript, JavaScript, a little RPG, Fortran,
> Cobol and so forth but not much in the C realm.
>
> I also hope it would help me on my road to Linuxdom. We don't run Linux
> boxes here at work ( though I am trying to set up a HylaFax server on Debian
> ) so I don't get a great deal of exposure there, and there is only so much
> to do on a home machine and I don't get much out of reading, I like to lay
> my hands on things and tear them apart to learn.
>
> My apologies for the rambling but any advice would be appreciated!!
>
> Thank you,
>
> Barry deFreese
> NTS Technology Services Manager
> Nike Team Sports
> (949)-616-4005
> Barry.deFreese@nike.com
>
> "Technology doesn't make you less stupid; it just makes you stupid faster."
> Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell
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