On Sunday 04 Apr 2010 19:04:08 Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Sunday 04 Apr 2010 18:50:02 Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > Excerpts from Shlomi Fish's message of Sun Apr 04 15:30:13 +0000 2010: > > > On Sunday 04 Apr 2010 05:41:25 Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > > > Excerpts from satyaakam goswami's message of Sat Apr 03 20:51:02 > > > > +0000 > > 2010: > > > > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi all! > > > > > > > > > > > > For the past few days I've been intending to write a document > > > > > > about "How to Get Started Contributing to (and to a lesser > > > > > > extent, Using) Open Source Software". Here are some of my random > > > > > > thoughts about my plans for it. > > > > > > > > > > how about this list > > > > > > > > > > http://shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/gnubie.html > > > > > > > > Hey Shlomi, > > > > > > > > I wrote this little tutorial a little while ago: > > > > > > > > https://openhatch.org/blog/how-can-openhatch-help-me-contribute-to-fr > > > > ee -sof tware/ > > > > > > > > You can click around on the headings to collapse/expand them. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > It's not too bad for its scope, but I aim somewhat higher and for more > > > comprehensiveness. A lot of people who may read my tutorial may not > > > fully understand what a text editor is, what source code is, why is > > > shrinkwrap software (commercial, proprietary, open-source, etc.) > > > unique (i.e: because most software does not have sale value), what > > > makes FOSS great and desirable, why you should want to write FOSS > > > ("What? Give away my software? Do I look like a sucker to you?!") , > > > and other considerations like that. > > > > Makes sense. Have you read the Teaching Open Source textbook yet? > > No, not yet. I was referred to its sources, but it's quite long, and I > could not find any summary of its motivation and intentions. I would love > to contribute to it if it's in the same scope. >
After starting to read the Teaching Open Source textbook, I decided to start my own effort on the TOS wiki: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/How_to_start_contributing_to_or_using_Open_Source_Software I explain hot it differs from the previous efforts. My text is CC-by as far as I'm concerned, but I guess other people can contribute under CC-by-sa (or use text under that.). Regards, Shlomi Fish > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > > -- Asheesh. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Freecell Solver - http://fc-solve.berlios.de/ Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
