Re: Looking for mentoring.
"Samuel J. Greear" <[email protected]>
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Your best bet(s) are just jumping in and tackling projects on the projects pages on the website or chasing bugs in the tracker and/or to visit the #dragonflybsd irc channel on EFNet, many of the primary developers are there -- we're happy to answer questions and provide direction. Sam On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Sdävtaker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I had been using DragonFlyBSD since release 1.8, some times more, > sometimes less... > I joined the list in 2007 and I did some testing for cards at some point. > If you check, you can even see me listed as contributor in the website :). > > Since 2009, I started a blog where I put Spanish version of some news > about DragonFlyBSD, also I had been promoting it in some conferences, > showing hammer and some other nice features around. > Today, I checked the stats of my blog (which I already suspected was not > really making any difference) and noticed it has like 5 hits per entry, > considering I get to filter spam, there is a big chance nobody is reading > it, or maybe 2 people in the whole world (one being my wife)... > So, I was thinking in kill it and try to contribute some time in something > more useful for the project. > > As you may notice at this point, English is not my primary language... So > documentation stuff in English may not be the best thing to do for me, but > I can help in some other areas. > I think I have a few useful skills for the community, just need some > guidance. > Just to list a few, I code some c++, php, objective-c, smalltalk, assembly > x86. I had worked in industry doing development for 10 years, I was > sysadmin for some time also. I got a degree in CS and I'm in second year > for a phd in discrete events simulation theory. > > So, I want to figure out what would be the best way to help the project > and if someone is able to give me some pointers until I get in track. > Also, if someone is living in southeast France and want to talk about it > with some beers, I'm up for that too :) > > Eager to help, > Damian Vicino > > > -- > http://dfbsd.trackbsd.org.ar >