[Ubuntu-eg] An Open Source Contribution [Suggestion]

[Ahmed Toulan]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Seif Lotfy <seif at lotfy.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:02 PM, mosab.ahmad at gmail.com <
> mosab.ahmad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I suggest that we hold an event to share among ourselves how to
>> contribute to open source practically, not just in theory.
>>
>> Typical sessions should include but is not limited to :
>>
>>    - Version control
>>       - Pulling/Pushing/Merging
>>       - How to deal with patches and diffs
>>       - Different version control systems (cvs, svn, git, hg, bzr)
>>       - peer review
>>       - Testing
>>       - How to properly identify and report a bug
>>       - Automated testing
>>    - Packaging
>>       - How to package your software to a .deb package for ubuntu
>>
>> Any other suggestions would be great.
>>
>>
>> Best regards.
>>
>> ----------------------*
>> Mosab Ahmad *
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>>
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>>
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> I love your enthusiasm, really awesome and infectious.
> I had a long discussion with Ahmed about this. We came to a point where we
> noticed that we as a community we end up giving classes and sessions but we
> never apply it. We have done this in the past and we still want to do more.
> This approach is good but not efficient. We are trying to grow
> unorganically.
> Let us start with ourselves. Each one of us here should try to fix a bug
> and report by the end of this month what he fixed, reported or translated.
> This way the community will know who is capable with what and thus  they
> can approach those figures with questions. This eventually could lead to a
> mentorship program.
>
> What do you think?
>

+1

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