Hi all

[Dharmit Shah]

Hello,

I am Dharmit Shah from Ahmedabad and I've just joined the list. I am using
fedora since a year and a half. I had tried OpenSUSE before fedora, but
fedora finally brought me to the world of Linux. I am willing to do RHCE
after my graduation studies get over in June this year. I guess that's
enough for an intro. :)

-- 
Regards

Dharmit Shah

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 04/15/2010 11:39 PM, Dharmit Shah wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  I am Dharmit Shah from Ahmedabad and I've just joined the list. I am
>  using fedora since a year and a half. I had tried OpenSUSE before
>  fedora, but fedora finally brought me to the world of Linux. I am
>  willing to do RHCE after my graduation studies get over in June this
>  year. I guess that's enough for an intro. :) 
Welcome to Fedora India.   Are you interested in contributing?

Rahul

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On 04/15/2010 11:39 PM, Dharmit Shah wrote:
>  ... I am
>  > willing to do RHCE after my graduation studies get over in June this
>  > year. I guess that's enough for an intro. :)
>
>  Welcome to Fedora India.   Are you interested in contributing?
>
>  Rahul
>  
What contributions can be done by graduate students to the Fedora community.
Students who have some knowledge of:

   - programming in C, C++, Java, C#
   - operating system components
   - database system concepts (creating databases, writing queries, etc. in
   Oracle and MS SQL Server)
   - web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSLT)

Any other typical contributions expected from graduate students or beginners
towards the Fedora community?

-- 
*Aniket Suryavanshi*
B.Sc. (Computer Science) student, India.
aniket.wordpress.com <http://bit.ly/aniket>
twitter.com/kietan <http://bit.ly/kietan>
www.facebook.com/aniket1 <http://bit.ly/aniket1>

[susmit shannigrahi]

>  What contributions can be done by graduate students to the Fedora
> community.
>  Students who have some knowledge of: 
This is a mistake.

Here you don't contribute only with your existing knowledge. The
process is somehow different. You get involved here, start linking
things, find out some interesting work, pick up additional skills if
necessary and get the work done.

So, the most necessary skill here is the ability / mindset to learn
(and get the work done).

>  Any other typical contributions expected from graduate students or
> beginners
>  towards the Fedora community? 
Anything other than marketing/evangelism is welcome.




-- 
Regards,
Susmit.

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http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit
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On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:19 AM, susmit shannigrahi <
thinklinux.ssh(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  > What contributions can be done by graduate students to the
> Fedora
>  community.
>  > Students who have some knowledge of:
>
>  This is a mistake.
>
>  Here you don't contribute only with your existing knowledge. The
>  process is somehow different. You get involved here, start linking
>  things, find out some interesting work, pick up additional skills if
>  necessary and get the work done.
>
>  So, the most necessary skill here is the ability / mindset to learn
>  (and get the work done).
>
>  > Any other typical contributions expected from graduate students or
>  beginners
>  > towards the Fedora community?
>
>  Anything other than marketing/evangelism is welcome.
>
>
>
>
>  --
>  Regards,
>  Susmit.
>
>
>  
Thanks :) You've just now unleashed the moment of truth that I've been
dreading over the years. Technology changes, almost everyday! May be we were
studying something that was suggested for the syllabus a decade back and not
updated since then.

I guess we guys have to learn technologies from the LAMP stack to get
started contributing for the Fedora community.

I'm still confused how do I find projects and get involved.

-- 
*Aniket Suryavanshi*
B.Sc. (Computer Science) student, India.
aniket.wordpress.com <http://bit.ly/aniket>
twitter.com/kietan <http://bit.ly/kietan>
www.facebook.com/aniket1 <http://bit.ly/aniket1>

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi,

--- On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Aniket Suryavanshi
<kietans(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
| Technology changes, almost everyday! May be we were
| studying something that was suggested for the syllabus a decade back and not
| updated since then.
\--

No. The basic concepts remain the same. The mistake students make are
learning tools, and not the fundamental concepts!

SK

-- 
Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com

[Dharmit Shah]

I face the same. In process of studying engineering, I learnt very outdated
stuffs in the college. Learnt Java, OS, Networks in the final year. I had
great love for C/C++ but not confident if my skills are good enough to
contribute to Fedora community. But still I would like to learn and
contribute to the community.

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Aniket Suryavanshi <kietans(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote:

>  On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:19 AM, susmit shannigrahi <
>  thinklinux.ssh(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>
> > > What contributions can be done by graduate students to the Fedora
> > community.
> > > Students who have some knowledge of:
> >
> > This is a mistake.
> >
> > Here you don't contribute only with your existing knowledge. The
> > process is somehow different. You get involved here, start linking
> > things, find out some interesting work, pick up additional skills if
> > necessary and get the work done.
> >
> > So, the most necessary skill here is the ability / mindset to learn
> > (and get the work done).
> >
> > > Any other typical contributions expected from graduate students or
> > beginners
> > > towards the Fedora community?
> >
> > Anything other than marketing/evangelism is welcome.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Susmit.
> >
> >
> >
>  Thanks :) You've just now unleashed the moment of truth that I've been
>  dreading over the years. Technology changes, almost everyday! May be we were
>  studying something that was suggested for the syllabus a decade back and not
>  updated since then.
>
>  I guess we guys have to learn technologies from the LAMP stack to get
>  started contributing for the Fedora community.
>
>  I'm still confused how do I find projects and get involved.
>
>  --
>  *Aniket Suryavanshi*
>  B.Sc. (Computer Science) student, India.
>  aniket.wordpress.com <http://bit.ly/aniket>
>  twitter.com/kietan <http://bit.ly/kietan>
>  www.facebook.com/aniket1 <http://bit.ly/aniket1>
>
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>  


-- 
Regards

Dharmit Shah

[Aditya Patawari]

Rahul Sundaram is organizing an IRC workshop on rpm packaging at 7pm today.
All those who want to contribute to fedora and don't know where to start can
attend this workshop.

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Dharmit Shah <shahdharmit(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  I face the same. In process of studying engineering, I learnt very
> outdated
>  stuffs in the college. Learnt Java, OS, Networks in the final year. I had
>  great love for C/C++ but not confident if my skills are good enough to
>  contribute to Fedora community. But still I would like to learn and
>  contribute to the community.
>
>  On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Aniket Suryavanshi <kietans(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:19 AM, susmit shannigrahi <
> > thinklinux.ssh(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> >
> >> > What contributions can be done by graduate students to the Fedora
> >> community.
> >> > Students who have some knowledge of:
> >>
> >> This is a mistake.
> >>
> >> Here you don't contribute only with your existing knowledge. The
> >> process is somehow different. You get involved here, start linking
> >> things, find out some interesting work, pick up additional skills if
> >> necessary and get the work done.
> >>
> >> So, the most necessary skill here is the ability / mindset to learn
> >> (and get the work done).
> >>
> >> > Any other typical contributions expected from graduate students or
> >> beginners
> >> > towards the Fedora community?
> >>
> >> Anything other than marketing/evangelism is welcome.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Susmit.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Thanks :) You've just now unleashed the moment of truth that I've been
> > dreading over the years. Technology changes, almost everyday! May be we were
> > studying something that was suggested for the syllabus a decade back and not
> > updated since then.
> >
> > I guess we guys have to learn technologies from the LAMP stack to get
> > started contributing for the Fedora community.
> >
> > I'm still confused how do I find projects and get involved.
> >
> > --
> > *Aniket Suryavanshi*
> > B.Sc. (Computer Science) student, India.
> > aniket.wordpress.com <http://bit.ly/aniket>
> > twitter.com/kietan <http://bit.ly/kietan>
> > www.facebook.com/aniket1 <http://bit.ly/aniket1>
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > india mailing list
> > india(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india
> >
>
>
>
>  --
>  Regards
>
>  Dharmit Shah
>
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>  


-- 
Aditya Patawari
http://yaps.co.in
http://blog.adityapatawari.com/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adimania
India

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Aniket Suryavanshi <kietans(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  I guess we guys have to learn technologies from the LAMP stack to
> get
>  started contributing for the Fedora community. 
No. That is one of the most incorrect assumptions a lot of people have
about FOSS contribution, let alone Fedora. FOSS != LAMP. You can
contribute code to FOSS in any language you have learnt in college. If
you know C/C++ you have access to a huge number of projects that you
can contribute to within Fedora. If you're willing to learn Python,
your horizons extend even further. You will have to do a lot of
reading, lot of studying, not for marks but to just understand what
exactly is going on. It will be way more reading than what you may
have done in your entire college life.

And the key to contributing code is first reading it. A majority of
potential contributors run away scared at the perceived complexity of
the code because they have not done anything more than the pascals
triangle in college. It can take weeks of toiling to understand code
of a reasonably complex program in any language. You will not be able
to submit uber hacker style patches in the first go. Your first
attempts will probably be spelling mistakes, typos, etc. Most of your
initial patches will be ridiculed. The key is to not give up and keep
working because with every such criticism, you learn.

A good place to start looking at code is with Bugzapping. See this:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers

You get to see program bugs first hand. Download the srpm, try to
reproduce them and then try to fix them. If someone has already
provided a patch then read it and understand how it fixes the issue.
It is quite a slow process and you have to be willing to put in the
hours.

-- 
Siddhesh Poyarekar
http://siddhesh.in

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 04/16/2010 03:06 AM, Aniket Suryavanshi wrote:
>  What contributions can be done by graduate students to the Fedora
>  community. Students who have some knowledge of:
>
>      * programming in C, C++, Java, C#
>      * operating system components
>      * database system concepts (creating databases, writing queries,
>        etc. in Oracle and MS SQL Server)
>      * web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSLT)
>
>  Any other typical contributions expected from graduate students or
>  beginners towards the Fedora community?
>  
There are more than enough skills to get started.   If you want specific
projects,  I have a list of easy to fix bugs in Gnote (C and C#
knowledge is useful) and Transmission (C++ with GTK, Qt and web front
end using Javascript and HTML )  is available.  Let me know if you want
me to send them across to you.   Gnote upstream is Rishi and he is a
Fedora contributor subscribed to this list and Transmission primary
upstream contact is charles in #transmission.   There are many more
including lekhonee-gnome, a wordpress blog editor written in Vala (C#
knowledge is useful) and Ayttm yahoo instant messenger (C skills are
useful) and so on. 


Rahul

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  There are more than enough skills to get started.   If you want specific
>  projects,  I have a list of easy to fix bugs in *Gnote *(C and C#
>  knowledge is useful) and *Transmission *(C++ with GTK, Qt and web front
>  end using Javascript and HTML )  is available.  Let me know if you want
>  me to send them across to you.   Gnote upstream is Rishi and he is a
>  Fedora contributor subscribed to this list and Transmission primary
>  upstream contact is charles in #transmission.   There are many more
>  including *lekhonee-gnome*, a wordpress blog editor written in Vala (C#
>  knowledge is useful) and *Ayttm *yahoo instant messenger (C skills are
>  useful) and so on.
>
>
>  Rahul
>  
I'm interested in all of these. Please send me the details to get started.
I'm more inclined towards *Ayttm*.

-- 
*Aniket Suryavanshi*
B.Sc. (Computer Science) student, India.
aniket.wordpress.com
twitter.com/kietan
www.facebook.com/aniket1

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Aniket Suryavanshi <kietans(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  I'm interested in all of these. Please send me the details to get started.
>  I'm more inclined towards Ayttm.
>  
You can either start upstream here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ayttm/develop

and sign up to the upstream devel list here:

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ayttm-devel

Alternatively, you can get yourself a FAS account and be a
co-maintainer. This would not give you much action though since ayttm
is not a popular enough project in Fedora to keep you busy with bug
reports.

There is a TODO list in the source tree, which you can choose from and
start working on it. Email the upstream list if you get stuck
anywhere.


-- 
Siddhesh Poyarekar
http://siddhesh.in