On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Senaka Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Michael Champion >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I'd also point out that there are free SDKs and Express versions of most >> of the Microsoft development tools [1], targeted at non-commercial >> developers. See [2] for a neutral discussion of what has been left out of >> the Express editions. >> > >> > So, while these tools are not open source, there are no barriers that I >> know of against using them to build and test open source software. >> > >> > [1] http://www.microsoft.com/express/ (Designed for, but usable without >> Silverlight) >> > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio_Express >> >> great >> >> creating a short guide to getting involved in open source on .NET >> might help stronehenge encourage contributors > > > +1. Also, there are some ASF projects that use .NET technologies as of > present (ex:- Lucene, [1]), that might IMHO, be worth taking a look at.
yeh - once stonehenge has a good page, the mentors should probably look to move the content into the apache development site (http://www.apache.org/dev) and link in. - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
