Re: Request for student opportunity to work on Apache OpenOffice

2014-06-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti

On 23/06/2014 Sama, Sowmya wrote:

My name is Sowmya and my teammates are Keerthana
Aravamudhan(karavamud...@luc.edu) and Sathyashree Narasimha
(snarasi...@luc.edu). We are currently pursuing our degree at Loyola
University Chicago.


Welcome! OpenOffice can indeed offer you many opportunities for 
volunteering in different fields.



Keerthana Aravamudhan - I am currently persuing my MS in Computer
Science and I'm in my 3rd semester . I have about 6 years of
experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer and I'm also familiar with
Java and C . I need to contribute to an open source project for the
duration of this semester (ending in July) . So I was hoping if I
could contribute in development and QA for 5 hrs a week.


If you wish to start immediately and you have 5 hours/week, join the 
ongoing tests. Subscribe to the QA list

http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html
and then send a note saying that you would like to join the ongoing 
tests; include your preferred username so that we can create accounts 
for you, and include details on the operating system(s) you use. Then an 
optimal way to combine your development and QA skills is to port some of 
our automated tests to Google Test. See 
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Googletest but ask the dev list for 
precise instructions.



Sowmya Sama - I am co-student of Keerthana, enrolled in MS in
Software Engineering. I have around 3 years experience as C# .Net
developer and familiar with Java. I would like to contribute along
with my team for about 5 hours a week in either Development aspect or
Documentation.


Documentation is a field where you can help immediately. We have a list 
of pages that need proofreading right now. For example:
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/UI and 
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Formatting
We can create a wiki account for you if you send the doc list (please 
subscribe, see above) your preferred username; then you'll be able to 
edit pages. As for Development, the hardest initial step is to get 
OpenOffice to build. See 
http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-development.html to get 
started.



Sathyashree Narasimha -  I am currently enrolled as a Non- Degree
student and aspiring to pursue the Masters Degree in Information
Technology. I am familiar with C# and Java. I will be glad to
contribute 10 hours per week contributing towards testing and
documentation. ?


What I wrote above about testing and documentation applies. In your 
case, you should subscribe to both the QA and Documentation lists. You 
and Keerthana could also help in confirming unconfirmed bug reports. 
This is an easy way to help with QA and very useful to the project. See 
http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-qa.html for more information.


Regards,
  Andrea.

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willing to volunteer help

2014-06-28 Thread raj patap
Hi,
Thank you for adding my email to the QA mailing list. My name is Raj and I
would like to contribute some time doing manual testing. Please provide me
some guidance regarding where I can start.
Thanks
Raj