[UbuntuWomen] New member

[A. Mani]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:44 AM, sugetha kch <sugetha24 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am a new member at the Ubuntu Women. I am a programmer and I was looking

Welcome once again.  Sugetha has joined us via systers.

> at some opportunities to contribute to open source. Contributing to open
> source has always been on my to-do list for a very long time, but I never
> got around to doing that for some reason. So, I decided to take the first
> step with Ubuntu women.

Free software ... open source misses the point

> A little background about myself. I have a Masters in computer science,
> interested in anything and everything technology and programming. Coding is
> my favorite thing to do. I work FT at a networking company, mainly
> harnessing their OS capabilities to write extensions for their switches and
> routers. I could say that Python and C++ are my comfortable language. Python
> more so. I aim to do my PhD in the near future, so, I would be thrilled to
> talk to any PhD ubuntu woman for some guidance on that.

good,
on a FOSS related topic?

> I am a newbie to the open source community. Please do guide me. I learn
> pretty fast so don't worry.
> I was wondering what my next steps are? How do I start contributing? I
> contacted Svetlana about the Harvest project and learned that it is in the
> stage 2.
> Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Ubuntu developer guides are pretty detailed.
Example: http://packaging.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-packaging-guide.pdf
Do RTFM. Many developers like good questions.

btw interleaved trimmed posts are favoured in all developer lists and
UW mailing list too

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Thanks and Best

A. Mani



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