Projects In Foss
- 1. Projects in FOSS Why FOSS?
- 2. It is readily available.
- 3. There is no compulsion on what and how you are supposed to do.
- 4. Your contribution is in public domain.
- 5. Plenty of help available.
- 6. It puts you in contact with lots of important people.
- 7. How to start? Decide on the project you want to contribute depending on your field of interest.
- 8. Decide what role suits you the best.
- 9. Study the source code, documentation.
- 10. Learn how to use various bug tracking system like bugzilla, redmine, trac.
- 11. Contact people involved in the project through IRC and mailing lists.
- 12. Learn how to use different version control system like svn, cvs and git.
- 13. Projects in FOSS General fields of projects
- 14. Kernel hacking
- 15. Distribution hacking like Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Opensuse..
- 16. Desktop environment hacking like GNOME,KDE,Enlightenment..
- 17. Many more specific fields like networking, compiler design, digital image processing
- 18. Language specific contribution: writing libraries which do specific tasks in a particular language.
- 19. Projects in FOSS Different ways to contribute
- 20. As a core developer
- 21. As a developer who contributes to UI, and other aspects of the project like package maintenance
- 23. Functional and performance testers, Bug reporters.
- 24. Artwork experts
- 25. Projects in FOSS How to study the source code?
- 26. Every software has its own development model.
- 27. It is not necessary to go through each and every line of code.
- 28. Understand the distribution of tasks inside the source code.
- 29. Look for the files of your interest using tools like grep and find.
- 30. Look for comments inside the source code.
- 31. Projects in FOSS Bug tracking system?
- 32. What is a BUG?
- 33. Why is it needed?
- 34. What is Bug Triage?
- 35. How to report bugs?
- 36. How to start to resolve bugs? Use tools like grep.
- 37. Projects in FOSS Contact other developers of the project
- 38. Mailing lists.
- 40. Follow mailing lists etiquette. No top posting.
- 41. Be polite.
- 42. No SMS language should be used.
- 43. Be patient. Do not force your questions.
- 44. Search for the solution yourself before asking .
- 45. Projects in FOSS Version Control System?
- 46. What is its use?
- 47. Different types of VCS?
- 48. What is a patch?
- 49. How to generate a patch using diff?
- 50. Where to submit a patch?
- 51. Change log?
- 52. Projects in FOSS Different Projects/Internships opportunities in FOSS
- 53. GSOC—Google Summer of Code
- 55. Novell- NOSIP
- 57. Oregon State University's Open Source Lab
- 58. Kerela State Government's initiative
- 59. Fest like Mukti
- 60. Projects in FOSS GSOC
- 61. What is GSOC?
- 62. Type of projects involved
- 63. Duration of the project
- 65. Benefits
- 66. Thank You!!! Happy Hacking!!! T. Vignesh Prabhu (tvigneshprabhu@gmail.com)