Hello, my name is Darren and I'm a computer science major at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. I've never worked in open source software before, but the idea of letting windows apps run for linux sounds appealing, especially for games.
Though it's my first time in open source, I have some experience in C. Looking at the project list, the graphical user interface seems to be the most interesting, but I'm also interested in the resource and dialog editor since I'd like to get some UI experience. I've also worked in html, php, and mysql before, so improving the AppDB website also interests me. If pressed, I'd prefer to work with the gui and learn about what goes into making one.
I look forward to potentially working with you all more during the summer.
Thank you for your time,
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 8:31 PM, Darren M. Stevens II darren8@umbc.edu wrote:
Hello, my name is Darren and I'm a computer science major at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. I've never worked in open source software before, but the idea of letting windows apps run for linux sounds appealing, especially for games.
Though it's my first time in open source, I have some experience in C. Looking at the project list, the graphical user interface seems to be the most interesting, but I'm also interested in the resource and dialog editor since I'd like to get some UI experience. I've also worked in html, php, and mysql before, so improving the AppDB website also interests me. If pressed, I'd prefer to work with the gui and learn about what goes into making one.
I look forward to potentially working with you all more during the summer.
Hi Darren,
For a start, you'll want to make sure you can download and build wine from source. Once you can do that, please send a small (but useful!) patch to Wine. Ideally it would be one related to the area of code you'd want to work in, to show us you can work with the code. I.e., if you wanted to work on a Winetest GUI, fixing a smaller problem in winetest would be a good idea.
For the AppDB, what ideas do you have for it?
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Darren M. Stevens II