[haiku] Fwd: Re: Introducing Myself

  • From: "Samir Gartner" <jigzat@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:13:45 -0500

Thanks for the answer, that's a start. Now I gotta find a better machine to
run haiku more intensively since right now is running on Kju (QMEU) in a
PowerPC Imac G4. I will try to get a new laptop this Christmas. And set a
Development environment for Haiku.


Best Wishes.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
Date: 2008/11/28
Subject: [haiku] Re: Introducing Myself
To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


Hi Samir,

first of all, welcome a bord and thanks a lot for offering your help!

> Hello, my name is as you can see Samir Gartner, I'm a Software and
> Telecommunications Engineering Student from Colombia (South America) I'm 6
> months away from graduation. I have been interested in BeOS/Haiku since
> 2002
> when I first beging my studies and also since BeOS die. I have been
> following Haiku news since it was named OpenBeos wishing for a release
> (innocence is beautiful) and in the last 6 months I have been excited
> about
> the near alpha release. Right now I am kinda interested in getting
> involved
> in the haiku development as personal challenge but I dont have experience
> in
> OS development or advanced development topics. I have what you can call a
> student programming experience. I would love if you guys can point me to
> the
> right documents to start documenting myself about topics that I would use
> IF
> I decided to get involved in the Haiku development.
> Thanks.

Your absolute best chance of getting involved is finding something that
annoys you when you use Haiku. Something which you think could be easy to
fix and that annoys you during daily use. If you don't find something, try
to use the bug-tracker for inspiration, there are tickets marked with
"(easy)" in the ticket title. Just use the search function at <
http://dev.haiku-os.org>!

Since you may accidentally pick something that is actually hard to fix, it
would be even better to find several things that annoy you and then ask here
on this list, which one of these should be easy to fix and if anyone can
point you in the right direction and at the documentation you could read
about that particular subject.

Haiku is such a large playground, no one could tell you anything meaningful
otherwise. It needs to be something that you are personally motivated in.
And if we cannot pick something for you, we also can't tell you what
documentation you should read. :-) So the other way around that I outlined
above, will be much more successful, provided you actually follow this path.
:-) It's much easier to help you if you get stuck at a specific problem, or
want to know about something specific.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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