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On 2020-12-08 at 9:20, Arrigo Marchiori <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Recruitment list,
my name is Arrigo Marchiori. I have given very small contributions to
the OpenOffice code in the past, in the form of bug reports and
patches. At the moment, there are three open pull requests I proposed
on GitHub.
Greetings Arrigo and welcome to Apache OpenOffice (AOO). You have already
taken the major step in that you were able to build AOO, initiate the pr's,
and subscribed to dev@.
Lately, I have been trying to invest more of my free time into this
project, as I see quite some room for improvement and I would like to
help shape this great program, that I use for my daily work.
As an all volunteer project we appreciate and depend on people like yourself
that are willing to give of there free time to contribute in any way that they
can.
I am already subscribed to the dev@ mailing list. Today I found the
"Orientation" section of the web site and... here is my first step,
introducing myself on this list.
I am not a rockstar, neither a programming genius. My computing skills
include C, C++ and Python, that I use at work on PC and on embedded
systems.
You do not need to be any of those things to contribute. An integral of the
"Apache Way" is the emphasis on community over code that allows people to
contribute in the way that they are most comfortable with. Your C and C++
skills are valuable as most of our code is in C++ but also uses some C
constructs.
I have experience of Linux (Ubuntu, openSUSE) and FreeBSD systems. I
can work under Microsoft Windows but it is not my platform of choice.
My native language is Italian. I hope my English is... acceptable.
Many in the AOO community are not native English speakers so that is not a
problem at all. Your English is far superior than what I could attempt at
Italian.
Being blessed by a family and a daily job, I can only offer my free
time to this project, and even not 100% of it. But if you will be
willing to accept my contribution, I will be honored to help.
We are all volunteers and give of what time we have to the project. Only you
can know how much of that valuable free time that you can give and we
appreciate that you are willing to give some of it to advance AOO
Regards
Keith N. McKenna
Regards,
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Arrigo Marchiori (rigo)
http://rigo.altervista.org
