On Sunday 04 Apr 2010 18:50:02 Asheesh Laroia wrote: > Excerpts from Shlomi Fish's message of Sun Apr 04 15:30:13 +0000 2010: > > On Sunday 04 Apr 2010 05:41:25 Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > > Excerpts from satyaakam goswami's message of Sat Apr 03 20:51:02 +0000 2010: > > > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote: > > > > > Hi all! > > > > > > > > > > For the past few days I've been intending to write a document about > > > > > "How to Get Started Contributing to (and to a lesser extent, Using) > > > > > Open Source Software". Here are some of my random thoughts about my > > > > > plans for it. > > > > > > > > how about this list > > > > > > > > http://shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/gnubie.html > > > > > > Hey Shlomi, > > > > > > I wrote this little tutorial a little while ago: > > > > > > https://openhatch.org/blog/how-can-openhatch-help-me-contribute-to-free > > > -sof tware/ > > > > > > You can click around on the headings to collapse/expand them. > > > > Thanks! > > > > It's not too bad for its scope, but I aim somewhat higher and for more > > comprehensiveness. A lot of people who may read my tutorial may not fully > > understand what a text editor is, what source code is, why is shrinkwrap > > software (commercial, proprietary, open-source, etc.) unique (i.e: > > because most software does not have sale value), what makes FOSS great > > and desirable, why you should want to write FOSS ("What? Give away my > > software? Do I look like a sucker to you?!") , and other considerations > > like that. > > Makes sense. Have you read the Teaching Open Source textbook yet? >
No, not yet. I was referred to its sources, but it's quite long, and I could not find any summary of its motivation and intentions. I would love to contribute to it if it's in the same scope. Regards, Shlomi Fish > -- Asheesh. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Rethinking CPAN - http://shlom.in/rethinking-cpan Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos