Introduction :)

[Tim Gardner]

Kevin DuBois wrote:
> Hey everyone, let me introduce myself. Briefly, my name is Kevin DuBois 
> (about page <http://kdubois.net/?page_id=2>), 4th year Computer 
> Engineering student at the University of Michigan. I understand how 
> kernels work, and have been tinkering with them for a while (ie about a 
> year), but have never really done any "useful" work with them so to 
> speak, and would like to change that by helping out this team. I've been 
> around open source projects before, and have done some work with Compiz 
> (a few animations) and FFmpeg (audio work mostly).
> 
> I've found that with getting involved with open source projects, there's 
> an introductory phase I like think of as "the idiot phase", where  your 
> efforts are a bit undirected (and sometimes not even useful), and thats 
> pretty much where I am now. My cursory goal is to help out with one bug 
> a day, and do more as my confidence in what I'm doing increases. Feel 
> free to let me know if what I'm doing is stupid, constructive criticism 
> is usually how I learn best.
> 
> I've always liked "flipping bits" and a good challenge, and hope I can 
> help out. I got some useful pointers today in #ubuntu-kernel, and if 
> anyone has more, they are welcome to share.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin DuBois
> kdub432 at gmail.com
> 
> 

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2009-June/006169.html

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