On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 02:28:59AM +0000, jkinne...@yahoo.ca wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know if the OpenBSD project has any supports for a student > that would like to spend a semester contributing to an open source project? > I am coming from an arts and long time Linux user background and would like > to spend time learning a proper Unix as part of a projects based self study > period at university. Is this something that the OpenBSD community has any > particular opportunities for? > > Thank you for any thoughts, ideas, or direction. > > Kindest Regards, > > Jason > >
Hi Jason, I made my first larger contributions to OpenBSD during a similar project at university. What worked for me was to identify components of the system that were related to the subject of my studies (computer networking). After taking a closer look at these components I came up with some project ideas, and then directly asked developers who appeared to be involved in those areas about the feasibility of my ideas. I had a time window of about 6 months for my project, so I was able to dedicate a lot of time to it. I ended up working on ospf6d which was still in early development at the time and in need of someone with time to push it further. Our backgrounds are very different, I was already deep in my CS studies. You will already need to know C programming and/or shell scripting to make code contributions. You don't need to be an expert already, but you should be fairly advanced and able to understand feedback from experts. Otherwise, you could contribute in other ways such as improving documentation, help with porting existing programs (this can be relatively easy to do if you already know how Linux packaging works), or by testing patches that other people have in progress. Hope this helps, Stefan
