Looking for mentoring.

Sdävtaker sdavtaker at gmail.com
Mon Oct 7 09:24:58 PDT 2013


I was checking does places and I got a few ideas of where I should start, I
will be around the irc also.
Thanks
Damian



--
http://dfbsd.trackbsd.org.ar


On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Samuel J. Greear <sjg at evilcode.net> wrote:

> Your best bet(s) are just jumping in and tackling projects on the projects
> pages on the website or chasing bugs in the tracker and/or to visit the
> #dragonflybsd irc channel on EFNet, many of the primary developers are
> there -- we're happy to answer questions and provide direction.
>
> Sam
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Sdävtaker <sdavtaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I had been using DragonFlyBSD since release 1.8, some times more,
>> sometimes less...
>> I joined the list in 2007 and I did some testing for cards at some point.
>> If you check, you can even see me listed as contributor in the website :).
>>
>> Since 2009, I started a blog where I put Spanish version of some news
>> about DragonFlyBSD, also I had been promoting it in some conferences,
>> showing hammer and some other nice features around.
>> Today, I checked the stats of my blog (which I already suspected was not
>> really making any difference) and noticed it has like 5 hits per entry,
>> considering I get to filter spam, there is a big chance nobody is reading
>> it, or maybe 2 people in the whole world (one being my wife)...
>> So, I was thinking in kill it and try to contribute some time in
>> something more useful for the project.
>>
>> As you may notice at this point, English is not my primary language... So
>> documentation stuff in English may not be the best thing to do for me, but
>> I can help in some other areas.
>> I think I have a few useful skills for the community, just need some
>> guidance.
>> Just to list a few, I code some c++, php, objective-c, smalltalk,
>> assembly x86. I had worked in industry doing development for 10 years, I
>> was sysadmin for some time also. I got a degree in CS and I'm in second
>> year for a phd in discrete events simulation theory.
>>
>> So, I want to figure out what would be the best way to help the project
>> and if someone is able to give me some pointers until I get in track.
>> Also, if someone is living in southeast France and want to talk about it
>> with some beers, I'm up for that too :)
>>
>> Eager to help,
>> Damian Vicino
>>
>>
>> --
>> http://dfbsd.trackbsd.org.ar
>>
>
>
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