Thank you for your help and time; I will take a look at the issues and try to solve some of them.
I have completed the build and install, and have also taken a look at the architecture. If you do come across a project that has the needed mix of mentors, I'd be glad to be a part of it. On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > * I know git, but am not very experienced with it. I have worked briefly > > with perforce. > > * 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 > > The specific project I was thinking about seems to be lacking in the > needed mix of mentors at the moment. > > We do have a listing of "easy" and "simple" hacks from our development > orientation page: > > http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-development.html > > Feel free to take a look at these, and get involved by fixing some of > these issues if you like. We have quite a number of Ubuntu builders who > can answer questions on this list. Good luck with your open source project. > > > > > > > > > > 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 > >> > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "Nothing will work unless you do." > -- Maya Angelou > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
