Re: contribute

Mathias Bauer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Gerry,

On 17.12.2010 01:18, Gerry's Hotmail wrote:
> My name is Gerry Escobar and I am interested in donating some time in
> building OpenIffice.
>
>
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> I consider myself probably not a novice but not an expert programmer either.
> I have an old Borland C++ 3.1 compiler which I bought when I decided to
> learn C++ programming.  It's been decades since I set aside my programming
> skills.  After reading your website while trying to get a copy of OO today
> and also now that I'm beginning to get more time in my hands to do some
> other things, I thought perhaps I can get back into continuing my learning
> of C++.  If you think you might be able to use me with my old C++ compiler,
> I am willing to donate some time in building OO.  If not in the programming
> area, perhaps in the testing side of things.

If you want to work on Windows, you will need to switch to the Microsoft 
C++ compiler. There is a cost-free version of it available ("Visual 
Studio Express").

If you want to help with QA, please get in touch with the QA guys at 
[email protected].

Regards,
Mathias

-- 
Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer
OpenOffice.org Engineering at Oracle: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS
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