Howzit? First off I really should change my Subject line more often.
> > I've been thinking, dangerous yes I know, but DRI (desperately) > > needs people willing to program C for the drivers or look for > > bugs etc -right? > > We do need people...we're not desperate. It's amazing what a few *good* > people can do. Brackets are wonderful. A few good men <g> > > Well I am a student and there is a Department of Computer Science > > in the Faculty of Science, and these guys program C(++) etc so > > maybe I should advertise the existance of DRI & its need for > > programmers on the computer science forums? > > Be carefull not to over estimate the ability to program in 'C'. The > real key here is having a strong interest in Graphics Technology. > Highly motiviated individual who don't program can still be helpful in > testing, giving user feedback and helping with documentation. > Programmers however need to go much deeper than knowing 'C'. Having a > strong understanding of systems programming and a fundemental idea of > how the graphics pipeline works is critical. We would like to find more > developers with that kind of background, or strong desire to develop > that kind of background. I wasn't but of the type of people who would be interested in this sort of thing, a large percentage of them program. > In the end, I would recommend you make more people aware of our project > and the kind of work we do. However, I would avoid just recruiting > "programmers". > > Does that make sense? Perfectly. IMO the awareness of the DRI project is quite low, even amongst Linux users out here. I'll just mention it casually, whenever the subject comes up ie Graphics drivers / Open source projects / etc btw comments on control flow? Liam ---- it depends _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
