On Wednesday 25 June 2003 11:29 am, Roy Vestal wrote: > I know there are a lot of projects on sourceforge, > freshmeat, and /., but for those of us that are not programmers, what can > we do to help?
Do's : - Use those programs and send *good* bug reports to the development team when you encouter a bug and you can reproduce it. - Write one-page HOWTO's for your favourite program, a HOWTO directed to the non-programmers - Teach your friends about that program - Create a nice icon for that program - Create a help file for the program - Send an article to Newsforge on "How my life improved after I started using $favourite_program" - Talk your boss into giving money to a developer team to include that feature that you all want - Talk your boss into hiring an OpenSource developer to work in-house - "Vote with your wallet" : support projects that you care for. Many have pay-pal accounts or are developed by Linux vendors (buy their distros/hardwre) - Send *polite* emails to hardware/software vendors asking them for Linux versions of their products/open hardware specs (specialy for older hardware) Dont's': - Do not flame Microsoft users - Don't support SCO - Don't buy hardware from companies that do not support Linux My $0.02 Salut, Sinner -- Stallman Reads my Tutorials! http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/Steel/rms.html Running on Mandrake Linux 9.0 - Kernel 2.4.19smp Linux User # 89976 _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
