Re: New OpenOffice volunteer
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Edward Kuang ekua...@ucsc.edu wrote: My name is Edward and I'm from the bay area in California. I'm a university student in my second year studying computer science. I use OpenOffice and I like it. Contributing to this project would improve my coding skills as well as making the project better. I've never worked on an open source project before and was wondering if this is a good first project to contribute to. I realize that the scope of the project is immense, but because there are so many people working on it, I'll get a lot of help too. I'm free most nights during the summer and I figured this would be quite productive for me. Thanks for your time. Hi Edward, Welcome to the Apache OpenOffice project. This is a good code base, but we have marked a number of issues in our Bugzilla database as easy tasks, suitable for someone new to the codebase. And we have other, more seasoned developers who can answer questions and review your first patch. The first hurdle is to get a successful build. My advice is: ask plenty of questions. Everyone needs help at this stage, so don't hesitate to post your build progress and what error message you are seeing. Regards, -Rob -Ed - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: New OpenOffice volunteer
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Edward Kuang ekua...@ucsc.edu wrote: I have just completed level 1 and 2, signing up for the appropriate mailing lists and created accounts for the online services like bugzilla. I'm currently working on building OpenOffice for level 3 though I may need some help since I've never had to build something so large. I'll come back when I'm truly stuck. Thanks for reading! OK, good. Happy to have you aboard. On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Edward Kuang ekua...@ucsc.edu wrote: My name is Edward and I'm from the bay area in California. I'm a university student in my second year studying computer science. I use OpenOffice and I like it. Contributing to this project would improve my coding skills as well as making the project better. I've never worked on an open source project before and was wondering if this is a good first project to contribute to. I realize that the scope of the project is immense, but because there are so many people working on it, I'll get a lot of help too. I'm free most nights during the summer and I figured this would be quite productive for me. Thanks for your time. -Ed Hello Edward, and thanks for contacting the development list. I think you would find working with Apache OpenOffice a very productive use of your time! We usually point new volunteers to our Orientation page: http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/index.html Level 3 covers Development, an area we hope you'll find useful. But, as you say, this is a large project where you find lots of helpful folks. Thanks for your interest. -- - MzK Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. -- Jon Bon Jovi -- - MzK Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. -- Jon Bon Jovi
Re: New OpenOffice volunteer
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Edward Kuang ekua...@ucsc.edu wrote: My name is Edward and I'm from the bay area in California. I'm a university student in my second year studying computer science. I use OpenOffice and I like it. Contributing to this project would improve my coding skills as well as making the project better. I've never worked on an open source project before and was wondering if this is a good first project to contribute to. I realize that the scope of the project is immense, but because there are so many people working on it, I'll get a lot of help too. I'm free most nights during the summer and I figured this would be quite productive for me. Thanks for your time. -Ed Hello Edward, and thanks for contacting the development list. I think you would find working with Apache OpenOffice a very productive use of your time! We usually point new volunteers to our Orientation page: http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/index.html Level 3 covers Development, an area we hope you'll find useful. But, as you say, this is a large project where you find lots of helpful folks. Thanks for your interest. -- - MzK Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. -- Jon Bon Jovi
