Re: [gnome-love] hello

[Arren <jianling xiang sw-linux com>]

Thanks very much.

I think I'd better do some coding works, I'm not good at others. I don't 
know who wants a hand, so I'm wishing someone can touch me. I'll be 
searching and fixing some bugs first, and finding some projects which 
I'm interest in.

thanks again.

Ian McIntosh wrote:

> Hi Arren,
>
>  
>
> > I'm a programmer with a little of gtk experience. What can I do for 
> > gnome?
> >    
>
> Good question.  The answer depends on your interests.
>
> If you're into Free Software for the social-good aspect, you could help
> in the effort to reduce GNOME memory usage[1].  Not particularly
> glamorous, but I think it may end up helping the most people (not sure
> why? see the link).
>
> Along the same lines, you could find something on this list[2] to
> investigate and fix.
>
> Plenty of Free software authors would love help.  You could pick an app
> that's *almost* great and make it great.
>
> There are always bugs to fix in GNOME's bugzilla[3].  If you fix bugs in
> something like Nautilus, your fixes would be used by just about
> everyone, which is pretty cool.
>
> Or you could start your own project.  Many recommend against doing this
> as a first step.  If you decide to do this, I suggest something new (not
> competing with another OSS project) and *tiny*, just enough to learn a
> technology or two.  My first OSS project was to write a gtk/gnome screen
> ruler[4], and I think that worked out well.  If you don't know what to
> write, you can look for some cool little OSX application and clone
> it. :)
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Regards,
> -Ian
>
> [1] http://live.gnome.org/MemoryReduction 
> [2] http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2005/04/11/ubuntu
> [3] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
> [4] http://linuxadvocate.org/projects/gruler
>
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