Hi Michael, On Wednesday 21 Jul 2010 18:44:15 Michael R. Wolf wrote: > I just learned about this group as I was scanning the OSCON boards. > > I've been asked to introduce myself. > > Briefly... > > As to Open Source... I first read the GNU Manifesto in 1985. I've been > hooked ever since. Give away the language (Perl, C, English); make money > teaching it, using it, and supporting users.
Wow! I haven't got a computer (an 8088 PC XT with 640 KB of RAM, 2 diskette drives and no hard disk) until 1987, and have not seriously worked with UNIX- based OSes until 1996. So I feel young again. I'd be happy to hear any of the perspective of experienced programmers such as yourself. > > As to Teaching... Soon after leaving Bell Labs, I started a string of jobs > where teaching technology (mainly programming languages) to mid-career > professionals was an integral part of my yearly mix. > Nice. I've stumbled into TOS after starting a FOSS-Begin Wikia (as a generalisation of my much older and more mature http://perl-begin/ ) and then finding TOS as a previous effort. I've started working on this document on the wiki: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/How_to_start_contributing_to_or_using_Open_Source_Software Any help would be appreciated. Do you have any concrete plans on what you want to do? Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Original Riddles - http://www.shlomifish.org/puzzles/ God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. 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
