[Cialug] Linux Volunteerism

Todd Walton tdwalton at gmail.com
Tue Feb 24 14:35:18 CST 2009


On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Randle Boyd <lowmaine at mchsi.com> wrote:
> One of my New Year's resolutions is to help out on an open source project.
> I have read about the various Ubuntu groups, such as LoCo, BugSquad,
> Development, Documentation, etc.  In the past, the club has done an Install
> Fest.  Is anyone in the group actively working (coding, testing,
> documenting, fixing bugs, etc.) on any of the various Linux distributions or
> releases?  If so, do you wish to comment on the experience?

I'm not active, per se.  But I like messing around with Gentoo
ebuilds, and I've submitted bug reports with suggested fixes here and
there.  I have been very pleased to see my changes accepted.  It's
kind of a thrill.

I agree with Matthew about getting into a smaller group.

-todd


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