Dear Arrigo, Thanks for your support. I already have some experience in open source projects (in fact I already did a collaboration on kde's kate). It would be nice to me to help strengthen the open source community here in my country or even along the spanish speaking community. I would love to do pair programming to share my knowledge and also to have fun while learning from the source code with eachother. Please let me know if it is pertinent to post an additional message (maybe in this group or in dev?) about the idea above to ease contacting people with the same interest. I already tried to build the source in ubuntu 20, but some dependencies are missing. I can either look a bit deeper for those dependencies, or even install an ubuntu 18. I will subscribe to the dev mailing list as you suggested and mention the dependencies issue I had.
Best regards Guillermo El dom, 5 sept 2021 a las 10:35, Arrigo Marchiori (<ard...@yahoo.it>) escribió: > Hello Guillermo, and welcome to the Apache OpenOffice lists! > > I am replying to your message below. > > On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 04:15:18PM -0300, Guillermo Molteni wrote: > > > Hi there! > > > > I am Guillermo Molteni, a dev from Argentina, and I would like to > > start contributing to this project. I’m also have been using > > openoffice for many years and I like it. > > There are a lot of ways to help the project. Writing code and fixing > bugs can be our first thought, but other very important fields are > Quality Assurance (bug reports etc.), documentation, artwork, > translation... > > This page: https://openoffice.apache.org/get-involved.html gives an > in-depth introduction to the project and the possible ways of > contributing. > > Being a developer, if you want to get acquainted with the source code, > a good idea would be to download it from our repository and compile > it. It is not a trivial task ;-) and it will help you get an overview > of the whole code base. Instructions are here: > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO > > If you want to follow this path, I suggest you also subscribe to the > development mailing list. Write us there what OS you are going to use > and we will be able to give you more targeted suggestions. (they would > be off-topic on this volunteer@ list). > Link: > https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#development-mailing-list-public > > If you have any questions, do not be afraid to ask ;-) > > I hope to hear you soon! > -- > Arrigo >
