open source developer tutorial

[Dan Kegel]

I'm writing a tutorial for budding open source developers;
it's at http://www.kegel.com/academy/opensource.html

My goal is to expand the pool of available open source
developers by reaching out to e.g. college students
who know C but aren't part of the open source / free software
scene, and encouraging them to join in the fun.

I use Wine in several of my examples, so be forewarned,
this tutorial might cause a few newbies to post patches
to wine.

Feedback welcome.  (I'm especially interested in usability
comments -- the tutorial has to be easy to follow -- but
any feedback at all would be helpful.)

Thanks,
Dan

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Dan Kegel
http://www.kegel.com
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[Mike Hearn]

Looks good to me, you might want to make it clear that it's for people
who already know the basics of programming. 

A note about bugzilla might come in handy also, quite a few major
projects these days prefer patches to be in bugzilla rather than on
mailing lists.

Perhaps also a comment that these days Linux is pretty trivial to
install, using Knoppix you can do software builds and such without even
touching the hard disk iirc.

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 20:25, Dan Kegel wrote:
> I'm writing a tutorial for budding open source developers;
> it's at http://www.kegel.com/academy/opensource.html
>
> My goal is to expand the pool of available open source
> developers by reaching out to e.g. college students
> who know C but aren't part of the open source / free software
> scene, and encouraging them to join in the fun.
>
> I use Wine in several of my examples, so be forewarned,
> this tutorial might cause a few newbies to post patches
> to wine.
>
> Feedback welcome.  (I'm especially interested in usability
> comments -- the tutorial has to be easy to follow -- but
> any feedback at all would be helpful.)
>
> Thanks,
> Dan