-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > 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.
Yeah, that's what is great about where I work and the contract I'm on. I can work on open source projects on contract time (of course only related open source projects). I work on stxx at work as the improvement of it saves me tons of work letting me concentrate on the problem at hand. It is this type of situation I think open source really excels. > 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. Yeah, that's why I'd throw out the question just for the hell of it. I couldn't really see what you'd do as a group, but it would be pretty cool to find out somone who hacks the same project you do lives near by. Don -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPbTkxAnBihDjfaO+EQLdOQCg/nw6r0mBc/5Nqu6+/98GqWBoxicAnjrv 0JWqHmruXFBd8umqw5476qoa =sIQC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----