On Wednesday 04 August 2010 07:33:40 Steve G. wrote: > As someone who retired, thinking he might get involved in OS projects, or > volunteer for research, let me give you my perspective on contributing > time. I will write in the first person, but am trying to give a point of > view that may represent others. > > 1. Even though I am offering free work, it does not mean I do not want to > get something in return. In this case it could be learning to program under > the guidance of some cooperative mentor. If the attitude is 'get a book, > learn to program, get some experience and then come back and we might let > you spend your time here', my response is likely to be '@#$% you!', or 'if > I wanted to learn on my own, I would work on my own project, not yours'. > > 2. If I test or document, I would expect friendly, polite, supportive and > timely responses to what I submit. If I get treated as if my work is > unimportant, or not good enough, I might as well get paid for it. > > 3. I can tell you from experience that it does not require English to be a > professional programmer. I once took a class in C, and the best student in > the class, a very experienced assembly and c programmer, who could barely > speak English and took the course because he needed the certificate to work > in the US. He occasionally helped the teacher with coding. > > 4. There is a web site called http://www.landshare.net/about/, which tries > to put together people with available land, people who want to grow stuff, > and people who can teach how to garden or farm. The idea is that the guys > with the experience would teach the guys with time and desire how to use > the land that is available. > > I think this is the only viable way to consistently work on OSS. Get > together people with software needs, people who are willing to spend the > time developing it, and people who can teach the second group how to > develop for the first. It can be virtual groups, of course, and the > outcome would be more people who know how to code using OSS development > tools, and have experience coding in them.
There's the site OpenHatch for that: https://openhatch.org/ Though I've found its interface a bit confusing and lacking. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Best Introductory Programming Language - http://shlom.in/intro-lang 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 . _______________________________________________ Discussions mailing list Discussions@hamakor.org.il http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions
