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
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
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