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Giving back to the linux community
Posted by brittdun on Tue 12 Feb 2008 at 10:27
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Since I'm a novice linux user, I was wondering what I could do to contribute to linux development or other areas of the linux community.

I would love to be able to donate money, but unfortunately that isn't an option at this point in time.

I love working with Gimp, and I contribute my graphics/wallpapers, etc to KDE-look.org, nickname schiz4life.

Any ideas on how I can further contribute?

Brittany
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Re: Giving back to the linux community
Posted by Anonymous (59.176.xx.xx) on Tue 12 Feb 2008 at 11:00
Well, as a newbie, you'll be reading documentation to do the more fun things.

If you find documentation for newbies is not that good, you can suggest
improved documentation.

If you get into reading the documentation for advanced users and find
it isn't that good either, you can probably contribute there too fairly
quickly. Providing you can see the difference between a technical
style that advanced users can understand, vs a technical style that is
confusing even for advanced users.

In any case, a newbie's viewpoint from fresh pair of eyes is often helpful
and the feedback can help improve the documentation; code; morale; glitches;
slickness; and hence the march of free software towards Total World Domination.

PJ

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Re: Giving back to the linux community
Posted by lters (69.176.xx.xx) on Tue 12 Feb 2008 at 18:01
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I wish it was easier to find a sponsor to get started being a debian developer?

Any developers out there looking for part time helpers who love working with debian?

I think it would be nice to support at least one package...

respectfully, lters

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Re: Giving back to the linux community
Posted by ajt (82.133.xx.xx) on Tue 12 Feb 2008 at 19:51
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I know the feeling, I sometimes feel I could contribute something, even if it's only small scale stuff. At the same time I suppose the administrive overhead of of millions of people who make tiny contributions then disappear is also a problem.

--
"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam

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Re: Giving back to the linux community
Posted by Steve (82.32.xx.xx) on Tue 12 Feb 2008 at 21:14
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Rather than picking people pick a package.

If you fix N bugs reported in the bug tracking system I'm certain the person who maintains that package would be both greatful, and consider you a part-time helper. ( I know I would!)

Steve

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Re: Giving back to the linux community
Posted by brittdun (70.61.xx.xx) on Sun 17 Feb 2008 at 06:35
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That's a very good idea. Hmm. I know cell phone tools need quite a bit of updating. I could start on bitpim, the one I used when I used windows. I installed it and it will not find my phone even though I specified /dev/ttyACM0 which I found out was the port though 'tail -s 3 -f /var/log/messages'

Feb 17 01:29:55 mepis kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 10
Feb 17 01:29:55 mepis kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 11
Feb 17 01:29:55 mepis kernel: usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Feb 17 01:29:55 mepis kernel: cdc_acm 2-1:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device

I'll look online on how to find and test bugs (regular use probably won't cause bugs to show up often, right? I'll have to push its buttons. haha)

I've tried a few others that were in the repositories. Not one of them could find my phone. :/

HUGS

Brittany

SimplyMepis 7, KDE 3.5.8, Evolution, Firefox
2.6.22-1-mepis-smp

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Re: Giving back to the linux community
Posted by Anonymous (217.125.xx.xx) on Fri 22 Feb 2008 at 15:51
You might want to take a look at http://www.gnulinuxmatters.org/participate/

Cheers!

Gustavo Narea.

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