Opensource Projects

[paradox6996]

I've never participated in an Opensource project and wanted to start to better my programming and linux skills. I wanted to join one that accepted beginner programmers. If anyone knows of such projects or places to go to see current projects, please post.

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[Stang02GT]

This should be fairly easy to find if you serach the net. Have you found anything?

[paradox6996]

It's not that easy to find ones that take beginner programmers. I googled some but only found ones where you needed to be at least intermediate or advanced programmers. That's why I asked for ones that took beginner programmers.

[RedSon]

You should look for help wanted on sf.net or surf over the launchpad.net and see what projects are looking for help. Even if you are novice, you can still be helpful. Reviewing code, making small changes. Look at bugzilla.mozill a.org to see a list of open issues you can look into. If you work on patches you can submit them to the deve community and they will review and accept your additions. Its a good way to gain some dev cred.

[HanClinto]

Good advice here. Keep poking around, you'll find something. If nothing else, offer to do some testing. Read up on some good test-driven development coding practices and offer to help another developer. Open source is definentily the way to go! Hardcore open source development is the most noble of all programming aspirations IMO.