Ben Knights wrote: > 4) Suggestions for projects would be great. Participate in WikiLearn (a project to learn / document learning) of any open source related subject.
Among other possibilities, you could either directly choose to help with WikiLearn (among other things, pick any existing WikiLearn page, and vet it for correctness (and clarity), or instead, as you do work toward any other project (perhaps XFree86 related) document your path and learnings on WikiLearn (starting new pages as appropriate (i.e., as you deem appropriate)). I'm afraid I'm being a little cryptic so maybe looking at WikiLearn would be helpful. Maybe start with http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WebChanges. (Note that my changes have tapered off in the last several months as I've made more of my notes in my offline "replacement" for twiki, but getting someone else to participate should help rekindle my enthusiasm.) If you're not familiar with a wiki, let me know and I'll provide more background, but in general it is intended to be an on-line collaborative environment where anyone (or almost anyone -- we can discuss that) can edit anyone else's contributions in order to improve them. TWiki keeps a revision record of each page, which, for those that care, can be a permanent record of attribution. (In addition, as a matter of "policy" on WikiLearn, I like to see a list of contributors on each page, not to be deleted even after massive edits by others.) If this idea doesn't sound appealing to you, write to me and let me know why, maybe I need to adjust the focus of WikiLearn. If I haven't said it yet, the first draft of a WikiLearn page is not expected to be a finished polished product, but something that inspires the next person treading that path to improve it. regards, Randy Kramer PS: The problem may just about solved for me now (once I try some of the recent potential solutions), but something I've been wishing for ever since I started the switch to Linux is a keyboard macro facility that let me create shortcut keys for arbitrary "boilerplate" text and enter it into the application (any application) with the current focus by pressing a keyboard shortcut. Although there may be solutions available now, some of them work (IIUC) only in specific environments (for example, KHotKeys for kde) -- such a utility that worked for any X application would be a specific project that might still be worthy of attention. (There are also some test type programs that record and playback user actions that might solve or almost solve the problem, but those that I tried to test a few months ago did not work well for me.) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
