On 03/23/2014 08:32 PM, Felipe López wrote:
2014-03-23 18:55 GMT-05:00 George Roberge <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Greetings, all.
I visited your site today and joined this list at the
recommendation of one of the contributor pages. My short story is
that I have been a Free Software zealot for a few years now,
attended LibrePlanet yesterday, and decided that instead of just
reading about Free Software issues I might try to help the
community. I downloaded GnewSense today but have not yet
installed it on my laptop or desktop PC, but will probably do that
this evening. I am a Debian fan, but not so much an Ubuntu fan,
and was excited to see your efforts recognized on the FSF site.
Unfortunately I am not a coder, and may be of limited use to your
distribution, but I thought I'd throw myself out here, anyways. I
have some "jack-of-all-trades" and somewhat rusty experience with
HTML, PHP, CSS, PostgreSQL, and am studying to shoot for a Linux+
certification. My strengths are more in my spoken and written
English skills and energy level, which may serve everyone better
in the advocacy and documentation areas. I work in a Windows
environment, and fairly heavily in Access, but not too much with VBA.
Anyhow, I'll spend some time on your site, install GnewSense on a
PC, and see what happens.
Thank you!
Welcome, George!
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Luis Felipe López Acevedo
http://sirgazil.bitbucket.org/
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Greetings again, and thank you.
I did spend some time on the site and Savannah, and created accounts on
both. I'll tell you that looking over the project was a little
intimidating (since I'm not a coder), but I did see a few places where I
could help out with some of the perhaps more tedious jobs. There are
plenty of teams on the site, and it appears that there's plenty to do.
One thing first: I saw on Savannah that before jumping into asking
permission to be added to a project, that the "applicant" should reach
the project leader(s) through another means, like the project's mailing
list. So I imagine that this would be the place to talk to someone?
And this may be a dumb question, but given the need for coders, is there
honestly a point for a non-coding person at this time? I don't want to
jump in and start doing things that aren't particularly useful to anyone
at this point, and have anyone thinking, "Oh, yay, thank you for doing
that thing...that really doesn't serve any purpose at this point...."
Silly question maybe, but I have zero experience joining something like
this. I'm a good independent learner, but I'm not familiar with "the
system" here.
Thank you again,
George R.
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George Roberge
www.andforthelamb.org
Free Software Foundation Member #11716
Computers are like air conditioners: both stop working
when you open Windows.
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