[Peers] General how-to on 'contributing to free software'

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Erlend Sogge Heggen wrote:

> My name is Erlend and I manage the jMonkeyEngine project. I rediscovered 
> this site just a couple days ago and now I'm excited to see what might 
> come out of my newfound involvement with OpenHatch.org. Starting light, 
> a single question:

Hi! So great that you're chatting on the list.

>  1. Are you aware of a general yet exhaustive guide on 'how to 
> contribute to an open source, free software project'?

I'm not... thing is, I think that it'd be better to make one oriented at a 
particular group first.

There's the Teaching Open Source textbook -- 
http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/Textbook_Release_0.8

>  2. If 'no' to the above, I want to make that list, starting with a 
> modified version of the one I've made for jME, combined with several 
> other big ones already in existence. I think OpenHatch.org might be just 
> the place for such a collaborative list.

I actually think that it'd be interesting to write it for a few different 
projects, one at a time, then come up with a slightly templated version.

It's great that you're starting for the one from jME!

> I'd very much like to do this project because I believe there's not 
> enough focus on the countless amount of simple things that can be done 
> by anyone who would like to dedicate a little bit of their time to lend 
> their favorite open source project a helping hand.

Awesome awesome!

-- Asheesh.

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