On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Don Brown wrote: >I'm curious how many other people on this list are open source >developers, particularly those living on O'ahu. I do mostly Java >development and am involved in the following projects:
I'm sure there are people like you who contribute to open source/free software in one way or another. It is difficult to contribute to very large projects like Apache, XFree86, GCC, etc., because it takes a lot of time. You really have to work full time to be able to contribute in any useful way. I contribute to some projects. But only minor enhancements and bug fixes. Of course, I have a full time job. Perhaps students who have more free time to learn the software can contribute in a more significant way. There is also another problem. Since there are few local software developers, it is hard to find enough people with the _same_ interests to organize a group. I knew people from work who contribute to free software. But we have different interests, so we never hooked up. --jc -- Jimen Ching (WH6BRR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]