On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 14:55 +0530, Mehul Ved wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Hameed <[email protected]> > wrote: > > If you were to suggest **ONE** open-source project for any new > comer to > > start with - a project that makes it easy to learn, at the same > time, > > generates lot of interest in a *newbie* developer to dive deeper & > deeper, > > what would it be?? > > IMO, it doesn't work this way. From what I have heard and read from > people, the best contributors first started as users. If you use that > software, you will contribute regularly to it and also understand it's > working so be in a better position to work on it. > So, you should be looking at applications that you use regularly and > then look for what you find problematic/missing. > >
I fully agree - people who contribute for the sake of contributing or for the sake of improving their resume do not contribute for long. People who want to fix something they use - or improve it - or add a feature are the ones who last. But one thing that I do is this: whatever code I write - maybe just snippets, I upload to my online repo. Most of it is only useful to me, but on occasion I am surprised to find a person who has found it useful. -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
