harish wrote: > I am harish from India, > i am perusing engineering , i am a lot interested in open source projects. > but i need some guidance for approaching & handling the project, > please help me . >
Hello, Harish. And Welcome. :) OpenSolaris is big and can be confusing at times to understand, so please don't be afraid to ask questions. Many people will be more than happy to help you and point you in the right direction. Also, we have an active community in India, and those guys are extremely helpful as well. Here are some links for you ... OpenSolaris Starter Kit You can start with the starter kit: http://get.opensolaris.org/ It's free, of course. Participation Some general ways you can get involved (we have to update this page): http://opensolaris.org/os/communities/participation/ Also, keep in mind that many communities and projects on OpenSolaris have also published ways to get involved. Just go to each community and/or project and read their pages (see links below). Community Groups & Development Projects: Go here to see a list of all the communities and projects on OpenSolaris: http://opensolaris.org/os/communities/ | http://opensolaris.org/os/projects/ Each community and project has a discussion list, so if you find something you are interested in you can monitor the list and then introduce yourself and get involved. Discussions: These are the web-based forums on opensolaris.org http://opensolaris.org/os/discussions/. Those forums are tied to mailing lists, but keep in mind that not all projects have web-based forums. So, a complete list of all the mailing lists on opensolaris.org is here http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo User Groups: There are many user groups around the world, and there are a few in India as well. All the UGs are listed here http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/usergroups/ug-leaders/ with links to their projects and mailing lists. Also at that main link are links to advocacy-discuss, which is the main discussion list for all the user groups and the Advocacy community. There are many new people on that list as well. Download: As you explore the OpenSolaris site and meet people, you may want to download the technology and start running it. We have multiple distributions at this point, and they are all listed here http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/. I run the OpenSolaris Developer Preview on my laptop, but many people run Solaris Express Developer Edition and also Belenix (which is from the community in India). Finally, FOSS.IN: Since you said you were from India, I thought I'd point out that some of us were in Bangalore for FOSS.IN recently. Great conference. I wrote a bunch of blogs about the conference http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/tags/foss.in and here are the presentations on OpenSolaris http://foss.in/2007/schedules/ (look at the column B/90 in purple at the top right side of page and those are all OpenSolaris technical presentations and they are all based around the notion of directly contributing to OpenSolaris. Hope that gives you a start ... Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
