Re: New developers looking for a place to join in

On Jan 20, 2:40 pm, Eric Hedekar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>     I've already briefly spoken with a few of you on the IRC channel, but it
> was mentioned that a mailing would probably drum up a few more ideas.  I'm
> one of three students in a group that's enrolled in a second-year
> programming course at Simon Fraser University; our course is an open source
> C++ systems programming course and we've been instructed to work on the
> mozilla codebase (this excites all of us).  After some intitial
> brainstorming and code/documentation reading, we've come to a consensus that
> we'd like to help with the SVG support in firefox.  What do you have to do
> with this?  Well, we're still in the project planning stage and we'd like to
> hear from you what sections of the code would fit well with a novice group
> like us and could benefit from a three-month development push on our part.
> Essentially we're looking for low-hanging fruit and a helpful hand as we
> venture into this codebase.  I can't speak for everyone in our group, but I
> certainly expect this to be the beginning of a long relationship with this
> code.
>     So, to recap, hello, it's nice to meet all of you, and what can a group
> of novices do to help?
>
> -Eric Hedekar
>
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This sounds great!  I think you should contact:

Jonathan Watt (jwatt): http://jwatt.org/moz/svg/help-out/

Other names:  Robert Longson, Daniel Holbert, Robert O'Callahan and
Brian Birtles.

Good luck and keep posting here!

Regards,
Jeff