Hi Regina, Thanks for the response. I want to participate in the core development task. I want to start with bug fixing. (Prefered language C C++ Java)
Thanks, Ankit On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Regina Henschel <rb.hensc...@t-online.de> wrote: > Hi Ankit, > > Ankit Tekriwal schrieb: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I am Ankit Kumar Tekriwal from Bangalore, India. I am currently working in >> Adobe Systems India Pvt. Ltd. as a software engineer( White box tester). >> >> From past a few months I have been thinking to contribute on open source >>> >> development. Today I was going through the open source communities and >> found that there are 140 projects that ASF currently works on and there is >> an enormous amount of opportunity here to work on. >> > > Yes. It depends on your interests, which of the Apache project fits to > you. OpenOffice has an incredibly wide range of possibilities. You can > contribute to Quality Assurance, Documentation, Marketing, User Support, > Extension development and most wished Core development. Even in Core > development the task vary much. Besides bug fixing - an ongoing task -, for > example implement filters, or complete the ODF features, or modernize the > code, or increase the performance. And all that for text documents, > spreadsheets, presentations, database backend, vector graphics, and charts. > > >> I am new to IT industry as I have joined Adobe a year back only. Please >> guide me in my initial steps. >> Exited to get started. >> > > I'm sure you will find an area in Apache OpenOffice, which interests you. > Tell us what you are interested in and we will find a mentor to guide you > through the first steps. > > Kind regards > Regina >
