Re: OPW HELP

[Laura Arjona <larjona99@gmail.com>]

Hello Ashvini, and welcome!

2013/10/3 Ashvini Varatharaj <ashvinivaratharaj@gmail.com>:
>
> Hello!
>  I am a third year Engineering student of Information science. I have
> knowledge of C , C++  and currently learning java. I recently came across
> the OPW  and I am very much interested and excited about it.I read that
> Debian project uses C,C++ .Can you please help me out where to start and how
> to start contributing ?

Well, I'm a non-coding contributor (translator) and not Debian
developer (yet) but meanwhile more experienced people guide you, what
I recommend is:

1.- Have a look at our (still in development) wiki page for NewbieTasks:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen/Projects/NewbieTasks

And in particular, I recommend the video of Lucas Nussbaum (our Debian
Project Leader!) about
"Get involved! It's not that hard! Five paths to become a Debian
contributor" (just 8min, in English):
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2012/mini-debconf-paris/lt-lucas-involve.ogv

2.- For OPW, probably you already did it, but if not, have a look at
the wiki page
https://wiki.debian.org/OutreachProgramForWomen
to know how the program works.

About the list of available projects for this round, there are some
non-coding proposals
(https://wiki.debian.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/NonCodingProjects );
about the code projects, I'm not sure if there is any project not
covered in Google Summer of Code. Please contact the coordinators to
ask.

Cheers
Laura Arjona
https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona

> Thankyou,
>
> Ashvini Varatharaj
>