[glug-t] Re: Write Free Software and get rich!!!!

Dear sir,

i  am new to ilugc., i want to work with oracle and linux.
is it possible oracle can be installed in linux.

where can we download.

kindly suggest.

regards
j.manikandan.
---- Original Message -----
From: "Vijay Kumar" <ec10052@xxxxxxxx>
To: <glug_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 11:17 AM
Subject: [glug-t] Write Free Software and get rich!!!!


People always ask me how do I make money, if I were to write free software.
Ok,
now if you are really smart programmer, here is your chance.

http://www.gnome.org/bounties/

This is definitely bettern than IBM's Linux Chanllenge. Your efforts will
definitely help the free software movement. Check out the rules. Its not
just
sufficient to produce a write up. Your code has to be accepted by the
maintainer!

I have produced a copy of the webpage below

-- Desktop Integration Bounty Hunt


Summary
Welcome to the first-ever open source desktop bounty hunt!
The goal of this contest is to help improve the level of integration between
some of the core components of the Linux desktop.

Our specific aim is to improve the experience of collaboration in the
desktop
environment. We believe that communicating and working with other people is
not
simply a function of a single application that sits in a rectangular window
on
your screen - Evolution or Outlook, for example - but one of the primary
functions of a computer. Therefore, collaboration should be a first-class
element of the user experience. In other words, it should be really easy for
a
GNOME user to talk to, share with, and work with their friends.

Below you will find a set of concrete tasks all of which are designed to
improve collaboration in the open source desktop. Each task has a bounty
associated with it. Your job is simple: choose a task, do the work, fill out
the claim form, and collect the bounty.





Contest Rules
All submissions must be open source, without any known intellectual property
encumbrances that might stop the submission from being distributed as free
software.

Patch acceptance by module maintainers into the main development branch of
the
affected modules is a prerequisite for bounty payment. For example, for
Evolution, this means that your patch must be reviewed (through evolution-
patches), accepted and checked into the 2.0 development branch before you
qualify to receive a bounty.

Eligible entries must be submitted and accepted by all the applicable module
maintainers before the GNOME 2.6 UI freeze, scheduled for January 12th,
2004.

Your patch has to work, and it has to work nicely.
"I just got it working," or "it works most of the time," or "it works but
the
UI is just a placeholder," or "what - I have to add UI?" don't cut it. (Some
of
the bounties below include UI mockups, but these may not necessarily be the
best possible solutions.)

See rule #5 below for further incentive to do a good job.


At the top of each bounty item, in the little header, there's a link to a
bug
in bugzilla.gnome.org. If you intend to work on a bounty, please add a
comment
to this bug registering your intent to work on it. That way, if multiple
people
want to work on the same task, they can more easily find each other and
collaborate. Please do not close this bug; it will be marked FIXED by the
contest organizers when the prize is claimed.

In the case of multiple submissions for the same bounty, the judging panel
will
do its best to choose the highest-quality submission and award a bounty to
the
submitter responsible for it.

Submissions by a group are not allowed. If you want to work on these tasks
as a
team, appoint one person you trust to be the official submitter, and he or
she
can divide the bounty up after it is awarded.

And, sorry to have to do it, but the catch-all: The awarding of bounties is
at
the sole discretion of the judging panel, and we may refuse to award a
bounty
to anyone for any reason at any time.
But we're good people, so as long as you play nice, we will too.




Helpful Hints
Before you begin, visit the web pages of the modules you need to modify and
do
your best to learn how they work on your own. Good hackers are good
learners;
if you're not familiar with the way the code you're hacking works, read
through
any available documentation, check out the mailing list archives, and browse
the code. Do this before you start asking questions of the individual
developers. This contest is going to attract a lot of attention and we don't
want to overrun the hackers with newbie questions.

Once you've done this, go ahead and check with developers to learn about
their
individual patch acceptance policies. In the case of Evolution, that means
reading the developer contributions page and patch guidelines.

To build / hack on OpenOffice.org, see ooo.ximian.com for instructions on
getting started, patch generation / submission and IRC in the hackers-guide.

Some of the projects in this contest require a lot of work in multiple
modules,
and may be difficult for one person to complete. You might want to hang out
on
the IRC channels for the various affected projects and find other people to
team up with for some of the particularly arduous bounties. Working as a
team
can offer you a big advantage. Then, appoint one person to apply for and
collect the bounty. It is important that it is only one person- we will not
deal with multiple people and the responsibility of dividing up a bounty.
That
person can distribute the prize to everyone else on your team, as you see
fit.

There will be an IRC channel on irc.gimp.org for the bounty hunt; you can
hang
out with us there on #bounties. This will be a good place to ask questions
about the contest and to find other people to work with. For specific
technical
questions about a given module, you should use that module's mailing lists
and
IRC channels.




Bounty Categories

Addressbook
Calendar
Documentation
IM
Mailer
Misc.

OpenOffice.org
Tasks





Category Task Name Bounty
Calendar National, religious, event calendars $15
Calendar Panel clock/calendar integration $1000
Calendar Birthday and anniversary calendar backend $500
Addressbook Gaim/addressbook identity integration $2500
IM Gaim/Evolution presence integration $2000
Miscellaneous Improve Nautilus "Send to..." feature $1500
Addressbook Addressbook/videoconferencing integration $500
Addressbook "Me" $300
Addressbook Planner (formerly MrProject) integration $300
Mailer Set wallpaper from mailer $100
Mailer Implement a panel notification applet for new mail $400
Mailer Mailing list actions $500
Mailer Finish NNTP support in Evolution $750
Mailer Inline PGP support for evolution $250
Mailer Custom mail headers display $200
Addressbook Contact search applet $750
Tasks Support export of tasks or other items to Excel (CSV) $300
Addressbook Choice of database for contacts back-end $250
Miscellaneous Evolution/iPod synchronization $500
Tasks Bugzilla tasks backend $500
Calendar Weather calendar backend $750
Addressbook Advanced LDAP Configuration $250
Documentation Outlook-Evolution dictionary $300
Calendar Publish your calendar $1000
Documentation Quick reference card $300
Mailer Ask user to make Evolution default mail app $100
Tasks Drag-n-drop task creation $300
OpenOffice.org OO.o slide view performance $500
OpenOffice.org OO.o slides side-pane $1500
OpenOffice.org OO.o Image Save $300
OpenOffice.org OO.o Calc - function precision $500
Calendar Publish free/busy information $500
Calendar Default free/busy URI $300
Calendar Calendar attachments $750
Mailer Attachment bar and drag-and-drop in the composer $500
Mailer Templates for new messages and replies $500
Mailer Language selection in composer $400
Mailer Better smiley substitution in the composer $200
Miscellaneous Drag and Drop between Gnome and Mozilla $300
Miscellaneous Make Evolution Use the gnome-icon-theme $500
IM Gaim drag and drop file transfer $400
IM Gaim drag and drop of links $250
IM Handle aim: links in Epiphany $100
Mailer Message receipts $500
Mailer Link URLs in the status bar $200





Free the Code,
Free the User.

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