Hello, The Adopt a Developer[1] project hasn't gotten any requests[2] from developers needing hardware or shell accounts or books or anything else, so I'm just writing a little note to encourage any developer (who has been a developer for at least 6 months) who could use extra stuff to improve Gentoo to please request it.
As mentioned before, to test the waters, we are only dealing with items worth about $100US or less. Some ideas for things you could request: used PDAs (the pda herd really could use some help), GPS units to help with the gps herd, extra RAM to improve compile times, a hard drive, Logictech mice (sys-apps/locomo), TV tuner card (for PVR packages), wireless cards to help the wireless herd, etc, etc. Arch team members could request hardware to test hardware specific packages on their architecture. A few community members have offered[3] hosting with shell access if anyone could use that to improve Gentoo. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/adopt-a-dev/index.xml [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/adopt-a-dev/request.txt [3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/adopt-a-dev/index.xml#doc_chap8 -Thomas
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