Re: New Document: "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software"

2011-01-17 Thread Jeremiah C. Foster
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 05:28:06PM -0600, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2010, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > >On Monday 27 Dec 2010 21:44:05 Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >> I think it is not fair to pointing the reader out directly to Linux. > >>There are other systems

Re: New Document: "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software"

2011-01-04 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
On Tue, 28 Dec 2010, Shlomi Fish wrote: Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:55:32 From: Shlomi Fish To: beginners@perl.org Cc: Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez Subject: Re: New Document: "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software" On Monday 27 Dec 2010 21:44:05 Alvaro Mantil

Re: New Document: "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software"

2011-01-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Parag, CCing the list. On Monday 27 Dec 2010 22:33:08 Parag Kalra wrote: > Hi Shlomi, > > Really nice article. Very informative indeed. Keep the good work and I > really appreciate your efforts and contribution towards OpenSource. I'm glad you like it. ( And it's not "OpenSource" but "open s

Re: New Document: "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software"

2010-12-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Monday 27 Dec 2010 22:24:45 Jugurtha Hadjar wrote: > Hello, > > I visited the page, and bookmarked it. It's funny, it's like you're > describing almost the exact process I'm going through.. > > > About the programming part, I'm in Control/Feedback Systems, but I think > that every person has

Re: New Document: "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software"

2010-12-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Monday 27 Dec 2010 21:44:05 Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: > Hi, > >I think it is not fair to pointing the reader out directly to Linux. > There are other systems out there more Open Source than Linux like OpenBSD > (for example). I think a briedfly review of these other OS would be good >

Re: New Document: "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software"

2010-12-27 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
Hi, I think it is not fair to pointing the reader out directly to Linux. There are other systems out there more Open Source than Linux like OpenBSD (for example). I think a briedfly review of these other OS would be good for the article and, after that, let the reader to choose between Linux

Re: New Document: "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software"

2010-12-27 Thread Katie T
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently finished working on a new document titled "How to Start > Contributing to or Using Open Source Software" intended to get more people > involved in the world of free and open source software (FOSS). You can find it > here:

Re: New Document: "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software"

2010-12-27 Thread Jugurtha Hadjar
Hello, I visited the page, and bookmarked it. It's funny, it's like you're describing almost the exact process I'm going through.. About the programming part, I'm in Control/Feedback Systems, but I think that every person has something to benefit from learning to program.. I used to be ver