On Wednesday 16 October 2002 14:58, deFreese, Barry wrote: > Since my posts usually get ignored we'll see what happens with this one. > :-) > > Since I don't have a great deal of money yet (When I win the lottery I > promise to send big checks to Debian and Samba!! :-) ) what is the best way > to contribute to the open source community? I've poked around on > sourceforge to see if I could lend a hand but many of the projects that I > found are probably a little over my head at this juncture. The initiative > here is two-fold. >
1) submit useful bug reports. 2) read existing bugs reports and offer help, suggestions, etc. Often developers are unable to reproduce a bug and it is much harder to solve a bug you can not see. 3) write tutorials, howtos, web docs, etc. Write a puff piece for freshmeat, slashdot, etc. 4) join mailing lists and help out those just starting. Read what other people say. You can learn a lot this way. 5) find a bug that is bothering you and try to fix it. Focus just on it. If it is obviously too hard of a bug see if you can find a smaller one. Alternatively try to add in a feature you are missing. Again start small. I always tell people on this list that a few helpful bug reports more than pays a new user's entrance fee into Debian. Same goes for upstream software. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]