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