Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 11:40:18 +0200 From: Evilham <contact@evilham.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question (fwd) Message-ID: <fd51e9d5-4499-41ad-8c33-a0481eb26ad1@yggdrasil.evilham.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2004070755410.29692@sdf.lonestar.org> References: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2004070755410.29692@sdf.lonestar.org>
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Hey, On dt., abr. 07 2020, Viktor Madarasz wrote: > viktormadarasz@sdf.org > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 07:52:50 +0000 (UTC) > From: Viktor Madarasz <viktormadarasz@SDF.ORG> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Question > > I would like to contribute to FreeBSD. I can NOT code ( very > shallow C++ > knowledge I pretty much got confused the moment the object > oriented concepts > being brought in and the whole mindset ( way to think as a > programmer) always > confuses me :) ) > > So what else would be there for me? Documentation? or something > else? ( English > and Hungarian could work for me and maybe even Spanish but My > English and > Hungarian are way better :) ) Helping out with ports doesn't *usually* require programming per se. My approach to help out with limited time has been to help fix things I see that need fixing. Here is something I wrote about updating ports (with tons of links to things I wish I had known :-)) https://evilham.com/en/blog/2020-FreeBSD-updating-a-port-twisted-python/ Creating ports is similarly not much of a programming effort, so if you see something that is missing and would be desirable, you can look into it. If you can identify a similar piece of software (as in: same programming language, similar architecture, ...), you might be able to extrapolate from that other port to create your own; otherwise the porter's handbook is a good resource and generally just asking on #freebsd-ports might point you in the right direction. Documentation is indeed also a great way, just can't speak for that as much yet. > Another thing... There is No BSD User Group in the country where > I live-reside > (Spain) How could I create One? I guess its a good opportunity > to do so as > there is 0 here as I saw on the Website. As I speak / write > English, Spanish , > Hungarian I guess I could tie in to other BSD Groups with those > languages as > well... > > Anyone can point me to the good direction regarding these > things? Actually, I've been looking into starting something like this; though in my case more wider-Barcelona centric, to have physical meetings be easier for the post-COVID world. Probably those meetings would be kind of tri-lingual (a bit like PyBCN), to facilitate participation of local computer-people who might not be as well-versed in English. Depending on where you live in Spain, bilingual might suffice, just make sure not to exclude people on a language basis. For that, I registered some days ago freebsd.cat, haven't managed to do anything with it just yet. I also noticed freebsd.es exists, but it appears to be an abandoned effort; you might be able to get in touch with them and maybe do a friendly, mutually agreed, domain take over and revive it :-) (that would be pretty cool). As for how to do these things... It's tricky because it's something social and it's a bunch of *constant, reliable* work. During the past, say 15-20 episodes of https://bsdnow.tv, there have been quite a few mentions about how to start such an effort. (You'd have to look into e.g. the RSS feed and find those, but if you haven't yet, it's a good podcast worth listening regardless of these particular bits) At the very least it sounds like announcing you'll do such a thing here, probably on Twitter *and* fediverse, and shooting an email with enough head time to the BSD Now people is a decent way to start. Cheers, -- Evilham
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