Hi Daphne, (I'm a CS student as well and an occasional Hurd contributor)
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Daphne Goodwin <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to start developing in some aspect of the Hurd OS. Great ! Here's how I started (more or less): I installed Hurd [1,2], read about how it worked [3], played with it for some time. Then I forgot about it for a couple of years (you may want to skip this step :-), but I had found the experience interesting so after some time I decided to give it a try again. I re-installed it, found a couple of bugs (which made Xorg crash on my hardware), and tried to fix them with some help from the people on this mailing list and the IRC channel [4]. I ended up working on debian-installer as a Google Summer of Code [5,6] student and I have been contributing on and off for the last two years. Although I didn't always have the time/discipline to do as much as I would have liked, it has been a great experience --- I have learned a lot and met some fine people. [1] http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/ [2] http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/README [3] http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/hurd/documentation/ [4] http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/irc/ [5] http://code.google.com/soc/ [6] http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc.html > I am a 4th year computer science student at Dalhousie University, and even > though I have long wanted to do this, I only now have the nascent skills to > start If you would like us to give you some pointers about the kind of work you might find interesting, maybe you could tell us a bit more about your background, for instance: - how did you hear about Hurd, what got you interested, - are there any subjects you're particularly interested in, university courses you really liked? (computer science is a broad discipline and Hurd is a project with many different aspects.) Some random links: If you've never contributed to free software before, you may want check out the OpenHatch training missions: http://openhatch.org/missions/ Also, there is a "contributing" page on the Hurd wiki: http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/contributing/ -- Jérémie Koenig <[email protected]> http://jk.fr.eu.org/
