Contributing to FreeBSD

[karan garg]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:16:54 +0530
> karan garg articulated:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am an open source enthusiast and new to freeBSD community. I am an
> > RHCE and have a reasonable knowledge of linux administration,
> > database, Bash Scripting, and C/C++.
> >
> > I want to contribute to the community. I have gone through the FreeBSD
> > handbook, and list of various projects under the community. However,
> > I was unable to determine a suitable project for me to get started.
> > So, I would really appreciate if you could help me find a project
> > that would require my field of knowledge.
> >
> > Also, I wish to apply for GSOC-2014 and have checked the ideas page
> > but found the similar problems as above.
> >
> > Also, if you could give me a link of resources and handbook for me to
> > go through before starting to contribute.
>
> Well, if you really want a suggestion, you could try updating the
> "linux_base-f10-10_7" port that was released by Fedora on November 25,
> 2008 to something newer, say the Fedora 19, released July 2, 2013.
>
> Thanks Jerry,
But as this is my first experience, can you give me some links to go
through before I start?
According to what I found, portsnap is one of the tools that will help me
for this.

Also, is this the correct mailing list to keep posting on for this purpose?

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Regards :)
Karan