Re: New Document: How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software

2010-12-28 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: Hi all, I recently finished working on a new document titled How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software intended to get more people involved in the world of free and open source software (FOSS). You can

Re: New Document: How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software

2010-12-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 19:15, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: Yes, I did. I thought it was fair to mention Ubuntu because it appears to be the most popular distribution right now, especially for beginners and one of the most polished ones. I've also decided to forget about their

Re: New Document: How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software

2010-12-27 Thread Amit Elbaz
On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 20:37 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all, I recently finished working on a new document titled How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software intended to get more people involved in the world of free and open source software (FOSS). You can find it

Re: New Document: How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software

2010-12-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
2010/12/28 Amit Elbaz oren...@gmail.com: great document overall. good job. I agree, nice work Shlomi. I see that you gave all the Linux distros a fair shot, even mentioning Ubuntu before Mandriva! Are you sure that you wrote this?!? I'm not convinced that the sainthood part is relevant. It