Don,
Welcome, please read inline,
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Don Friesch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I read the post from Andres on the full disclosure mailing list saying that
> you are looking for contributors (and more important - that you aren't
> picky).
Hehe, not I'm not. Actually I like mentoring people
> I've known about w3af for years (since BackTrack 3 I want to say) and have
> always been rooting for you guys. More recently, I've been looking to give
> back to the infosec community. After all, for over a decade it's given me
> tons of awesome free tools, plenty of entertainment and a career. So, here
> I am!
>
> I'm trained as a programmer, but have never worked fulltime in that
> capacity. Mostly I just write throw away scripts to accomplish specific
> tasks. I've never worked on a team of developers and am pretty new to git.
> That said, my Python and web app security knowledge are decent so I'm hoping
> I can contribute something.
Excellent, all sounds good. A mix between dev and security is perfect :)
> Let me what I need to read/do to get up to speed.
I believe this [0] document is the best place to start.
The most important part is that you're doing something YOU enjoy
and get value from. Find a task that brings value to the company you
work for, something that you could show to your boss or team-mates,
something that makes you proud!
[0] https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af/wiki/First-steps-as-a-contributor
> Cheers,
>
> Dan (3rd Degree)
>
>
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