[Dorset] Linux project volunteering

2014-12-16 Thread Nicky Scopes
 hello all, does anyone know of any Linux projects I could volunteer for I am 
trying to get some experience it doesn't necessarily have to be in this 
country. I looked at gnu.org but found they need for people to attend meetings 
or do legal stuff I need a bit more hands on, e.g. Linux system administration 
or even writing howto's or man pages for example.

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Re: [Dorset] Linux project volunteering

2014-12-18 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 23:15 +, Nicky Scopes wrote:
>  hello all, does anyone know of any Linux projects I could volunteer
> for I am trying to get some experience it doesn't necessarily have to
> be in this country. I looked at gnu.org but found they need for people
> to attend meetings or do legal stuff I need a bit more hands on, e.g.
> Linux system administration or even writing howto's or man pages for
> example.

What sort of experience are you after?

For technical writing, there are any number of free software projects
that are badly in need of good documentation or even 'what is this
anyway?'-type introductions.

Similarly for writing code: any project that's set up for collaboration
(i.e. most you will find) will have a bug list that's usually got some
low-hanging fruit in to get started with.

As for system administration, the way most of us got experience with
that was treating our home computers as mission critical servers :-)

The main thing when it comes to finding something to help out with is:
what sorts of things are you interested in? What sorts of things do you
use, even? Find out where those things come from, and see if anything
needs doing.

Tim.
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Re: [Dorset] Linux project volunteering

2014-12-18 Thread Keith Edmunds
Nicky, are you looking for experience in the Dorset area, or would you
consider elsewhere? If the latter, mail me on k...@tiger-computing.co.uk
with summary of what you've done and what you'd like to do, and I'll see
whether we can help.
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