I think a presentation idea about how to contribute to an open source project is excellent, I know there are probably more people like me wanting to help the community but don't know how,  initially I subscribed for the translation group at UBUNTU, but I was not accepted as an official translator, now I'm looking for another project to collaborate.

On 9/25/06, Derek Juba <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
David Mount has some UMD open source Computational Geometry software on
his website http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mount/ , which I understand is fairly
widely used.

-Derek

Peter Teuben wrote:
> i used to keep a page up to date that i dubbed UMOSS:
>     http://www.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/linux/umoss.html
> but as you can see, it's pretty historic by now
>
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Daniel Meekins wrote:
>
>> I'd be interested in a presentation on what kind of things are out
>> there,
>> how to get involved, what others are working on, etc etc - stuff
>> Pedro was
>> looking for.
>>
>> On 9/25/06, Peter Teuben <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>>>
>>> i have a really cool application in mind, a web registration and court
>>> scheduling system for things like badminton/tennis/squash etc.  I've
>>> got all the components in an old system, but am thinking of a new
>>> jacket, maybe using RAILS......
>>>
>>> peter
>>>
>>> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Pedro Gonzalez wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi ;
>>> > I'm interested in participating in an open source project, but I
>>> don't
>>> know
>>> > where to start,
>>> > I would like to know what kind of projects is everyone
>>> participates, so
>>> i
>>> > can get an idea what to do and how can i contribute to the community
>>> better.
>>> >
>>> > I'm thinking of starting with documentation then become a core
>>> programmer
>>> > for a project.
>>> > I'm thinking of free software foundation, mozilla or ubuntu projects
>>> >
>>> > any advise will be appreciated
>>> >
>>> > bye
>>> >
>>>
>>

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