contributing to open source

[Isaac (.ike) Levy]

Hi Kefeh, All,

One more recommendation as you explore,

> On May 22, 2016, at 6:29 PM, hiren panchasara <hiren at strugglingcoder.info> wrote:
> On 05/22/16 at 05:31P, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 May 2016, Kefeh Collins wrote:
>> 
>>> hello
>>> i am a second year computer science student, program in c and c++ and am
>>> interested in contributing in operating system (kernel) directed projects
>>> please i need guidance
>> 
>> A couple of thoughts:
>> 
>> (1) There's an "ideas list" at https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage and
>> links to some other things as well, if you are just wanting potential
>> topics to work on
>> 
>> (2) You might try to join an IRC channel or two to get a sense for what is
>> going on and get to know some other developers.  #bsdcode or #bsddev on
>> EFnet come to mind, but see also https://wiki.freebsd.org/IrcChannels
> 
> Good points, Ben. I'd add:
> 
> (3) Look at https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ and see if you can find
> anything you'd like to work on. If you do, propose a patch or ask a
> question there without hesitation.
> 
> (4) If you are interested/willing, you can setup a machine (or a VM)
> running FreeBSD. (Not directly related to programming but this can give
> you a good idea of how FreeBSD works.)
> 
> Thank you for your interest in FreeBSD!
> 
> Cheers,
> Hiren

(5) Try to find and attend a *BSD or other UNIX User Group in your area!  The FreeBSD site has a ton of listings, worldwide:

https://www.freebsd.org/usergroups.html

Best,
.ike