On 09/01/2014 10:25 AM, Deborah Digges wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It's great to hear from you!
> * We work primarily on unix machines - ubuntu specifically. IDEs we have
> worked on include Eclipse, NetBeans and Aptana studio.

OK. Thanks for this information. For any work on the code, you will need
to do builds which can be done in a variety of ways. Historically the
OpenOffice builds were done with command line. But now more use of IDEs.
We can provide more information about this at some point.

> * I know git, but am not very experienced with it. I have worked briefly
> with perforce.

OK. Mainly this is needed if you need to submit patches for anything you
do for Apache OpenOffice.

> * The course evaluation would be in the beginning of December, so that
> gives us time till the end of November to complete the project.
> 
> If there is any more information I could provide you with, I'd be more than
> glad to.
> I'll be going through the link you've mentioned shortly. Once again, thank
> you for your response.
> 
> Regards,
> Deborah

No more information needed right now. You and your team might take a
look at the following developer information found in Developer
Documentation:

*  the Building Guide --
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO

* OpenOffice Architecture -- https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Architecture

* OpenOffice Development --
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/OfficeDev/Office_Development

We will try to get back to you with some project ideas by the end of the
week (Friday) -- maybe even specifically related to Ubuntu. In the
meantime, please feel free to continue communication with this list.


> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 1:19 AM, Deborah Digges <
>> deborah.gertrude.dig...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am a *4th year* Computer Science student. As a part of a course - "The
>>> Architecture of Open source technologies", I am required to contribute to
>>> an open source project.
>>>
>>> The project is needed to be done by a team of *3 members*.The semester
>> ends
>>> by* November*, so that gives me *three months* to work on the project.
>> The
>>> course requires us to work *8 hours a week*. Also, the course emphasizes
>> on
>>> making code contributions.
>>>
>>> I am familiar with C,C++ and python, and I am eager to pick up additional
>>> skills that are required.
>>>
>>> Please could you help me in this task, as I am quite new to open source.
>>>
>>> Looking forward to your response,
>>> Thanks,
>>> Deborah Digges.
>>>
>>
>> Hello Deborah --
>> Thanks for contacting Apache OpenOffice. We'd love to have you contribute
>> to this project.  We will try to identify a specific task for your team.
>>
>> First, I think we need more information from you to make this successful:
>>
>> * please tell us more about your development environment -- OS, IDE, etc
>> * what is your experience with source version management tools? svn, git,
>> etc
>> * your semester ends "by November" meaning the end of November?
>>
>> There are many references to open source participation available. Here's
>> one that gives a perspective from a participant's viewpoint that you may
>> find helpful.
>>
>>
>> http://blog.cobia.net/cobiacomm/2013/03/13/open-source-community-participation/
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> MzK
>>
>> "Nothing will work unless you do."
>>                 -- Maya Angelou
>>
> 

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