Re: [BangPypers] [Fwd: Contribution to Opensource]

2010-01-19 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 19 Jan 2010 3:56:12 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > Is it possible to guide newbies like me whenever faced with errors > > generated during running of any of py program ?[..] > > The entry barrier is really low. You can contribute from anything to typo > fixes in the documentation to a

Re: [BangPypers] [Fwd: Contribution to Opensource]

2010-01-19 Thread Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy
>> Is it possible to guide newbies like me whenever faced with errors >> generated during running of any of py program ?[..] >The entry barrier is *really* low. You can contribute from anything to typo fixes in the documentation to architecture of the whole system. And you're free to do as

Re: [BangPypers] [Fwd: Contribution to Opensource]

2010-01-19 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:03 PM, 74yrs old wrote: > Is it possible to guide newbies like me whenever faced with errors > generated during running of any of py program ?[..] The entry barrier is *really* low. You can contribute from anything to typo fixes in the documentation to architecture

Re: [BangPypers] [Fwd: Contribution to Opensource]

2010-01-19 Thread steve
On 01/19/2010 03:03 PM, 74yrs old wrote: Is it possible to guide newbies like me whenever faced with errors generated during running of any of py program ? Of course ! That's part of why mailing lists and IRC channels exist. The only caveat is you ask smart questions: http://catb.org/~esr

Re: [BangPypers] [Fwd: Contribution to Opensource]

2010-01-19 Thread Baiju M
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:03 PM, 74yrs old wrote: > Is it possible  to guide newbies like me whenever  faced with  errors > generated during running of any of py program ? Actually that depends on the community and project. Some communities encourage all kinds of contributors and help with even

Re: [BangPypers] [Fwd: Contribution to Opensource]

2010-01-19 Thread 74yrs old
Is it possible to guide newbies like me whenever faced with errors generated during running of any of py program ? -sriranga(77yrs old) On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:41 PM, BR!j!TH wrote: > @Baiju M *Thanks for your guidance* > * > * > * * > "Dream is not what you see in sleep > is the thing whic

Re: [BangPypers] [Fwd: Contribution to Opensource]

2010-01-19 Thread BR!j!TH
@Baiju M *Thanks for your guidance* * * * * "Dream is not what you see in sleep is the thing which does not let you sleep" 2010/1/19 Baiju M > Hi, >Contributing to FOSS is not one day work, you need lots of patience. > Listen carefully to discussions in mailing lists, understand the culture

Re: [BangPypers] [Fwd: Contribution to Opensource]

2010-01-19 Thread Baiju M
Hi, Contributing to FOSS is not one day work, you need lots of patience. Listen carefully to discussions in mailing lists, understand the culture, hang out in IRC. See whether you can make small changes in their wiki. Test all the releases coming out. Go through the bug trackers. See, whether

Re: [BangPypers] [Fwd: Contribution to Opensource]

2010-01-19 Thread David Lyon
> Hi, > I too interested in contributing. I have 2 years and six months experience > in python, pygtk etc how can I start > Just sign up to bitbucket and email your bitbucket id offlist. I will then add you to the project. What I am looking for is just to get through testing the 8,000+ packages

Re: [BangPypers] [Fwd: Contribution to Opensource]

2010-01-19 Thread BR!j!TH
Hi, I too interested in contributing. I have 2 years and six months experience in python, pygtk etc how can I start "Dream is not what you see in sleep is the thing which does not let you sleep" 2010/1/19 David Lyon > > Hi, > > I recently joined this mailing list so as to improve my knowledge

Re: [BangPypers] [Fwd: Contribution to Opensource]

2010-01-19 Thread David Lyon
> Hi, > I recently joined this mailing list so as to improve my knowledge on > Python. > Its been 4 months I am using Python. So I decided to contribute to any > Open > source project. Can you help me on how to proceed on this, Whom to > contact > etc. Hi Nikunj, I have an interesting project wh