Small Open Source projects

[jack at coats.org (Jack Coats)]

I suggest peruse the projects, find one you can build a personal passion 
for!  Be excited about what you are doing!  And it would be OK if it could 
also solve a proglem for you too!  

Why?  For work in general, people (especially volunteers) get 'paid' by a 
feeling of doing good for others (a little cash helps too for non-'volunteer' 
projects).  The more passionate people are about what they are doing the more 
active they stay, the more they get done.

Ok, obviously you hit one of my 'opinion buttons'.  I hope this helps in some 
little way.

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Baran, Lucas" <Lucas.Baran at FMR.COM>
To: <gcmarx at alumni.virginia.edu>, <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:46:12 -0500
Subject: RE: Small Open Source projects

> I completely agree,
> 
> 	There are many projects I've enjoy doing on my own to solve
> problems, but I'm trying to find a team type project and unless I can
> get others to join a certain project I'm working on I thought it 
> would be easier to find out what kind of team project are going on 
> out there and hopefully hop on one that interests me.
> 
> Thanks,
> Lucas
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Marx [mailto:gcmarx at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 1:40 PM
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: Small Open Source projects
> 
> Lucas,
> I think what David is trying to say is that you should find a problem
> that interests you. Being "up for anything" is often a recipe for not
> doing anything. If you find something that interests you, then you won't
> be working on the project at all -- it'll just be play.
> 
> It's like anything else -- people are much more willing to devote effort
> to things that interest them. The trick is finding something in which
> you are interested.
> 
> Best of luck,
> Gordon
> 
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:30:08 -0500, Baran, Lucas 
> <Lucas.Baran at fmr.com> wrote:
> > David,
> > 
> >         I'm interested in most sports, golf, skiing, soccer, sailing, 
> > etc so anything project pertaining to sports would interest me very 
> > much. As for general computer areas multimedia, security and wireless 
> > are up there. I'm really up for anything.
> > 
> >         In regards to my ability I am more of a Windows .NET developer
> 
> > and work in that environment professionally for Fidelity Investments. 
> > I've been messing with Linux on my own since High school and took C,
> > C++, Java classes when working towards my Comp Sci degree.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Lucas
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Kramer [mailto:david at thekramers.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 1:15 PM
> > To: discuss at blu.org
> > Subject: Re: Small Open Source projects
> > 
> > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Baran, Lucas wrote:
> > 
> > >       I am trying to find a small open source project, in any 
> > > language
> > that
> > > I can contribute to from my Linux Platform. If anyone can guide me 
> > > in the right direction that would be great. I've been surfing around
> 
> > > sourceforge.net, but have yet to join anything.
> > 
> > I'm sure we can all rattle off a bunch of projects that desperately 
> > need
> > 
> > help, but a better starting point is to find out what your interestes 
> > and abilities are.  If the project doesn't center around one of your
> > interests, it's not going to be very enjoyable.
> > 
> > If you just want to see what open source projects are out there, 
> > http://sourceforge.net and http://freshmeat.net/ are good starts.
> > 
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