Re: [ros-dev] Interest in ReactOS and some requets

[Arko Provo Mukherjee]

IRC client gives error "Couldn't look up your hostname" while I am trying
to
connect to the FreeNode server.  I am using my institute net connectivity
which is probably thru' a NAT box.
Any ideas??

On 3/14/07, Aleksey Bragin <aleksey(a)reactos.org> wrote:
>  
>  Hi and welcome,
>
>  thanks for your offer to help - we were just discussing today in the
>  irc-channel that there are some people in our current team who are
>  willing to guide newbies through the process (get src code, build,
>  run, modify something, try writing something new, send in patches, etc).
>
>  If you have ability, please join #reactos on freenode irc network. If
>  not, then email is allright (ask questions right here, so other can
>  read and learn too).
>
>
>
>  WBR,
>  Aleksey Bragin.
>
>  On Mar 13, 2007, at 11:33 PM, Arko Provo Mukherjee wrote:
>
> >   Dear friends,
> >  We are 3 undergrad comp sc. and IT students from India. We have
> >  some coding experience but have never worked for the Open Source
> >  Community as developers. Yet we have always admired the concept and
> >  used FLOSS stuff like GNU/Linux.
> >  We came across ReactOS project and got really interested in it. We
> >  really want to contribute to the development of React OS and since
> >  we are new in Open Source development, we would require your
> >  guidance and support in stuff like understanding the code, building
> >  the build environment etc.
> >  Among other shortfalls that we have, we haven't programmed much on
> >  Windows platform (almost always Linux ie) and hence know little
> >  about the Windows API. But we are eager to learn and can definitely
> >  learn parts of the API as long as you can guide us.
> >  We humbly request you to guide us and give us some problems so that
> >  we can try and support this community. A lot is left to be done in
> >  ReactOS and it would be great being a part of such a project.
> >  Also we are better at writing C codes than reading them ( like
> >  almost everyone ;) ) and hence would request you to give us some
> >  problems that we can write from stratch rather than bug fixing that
> >  would require reading all codes.
> >  But we are ready to contribute in any way you feel we can as
> >  developers and support this community.
> >  Regards
> >  Arko Provo Mukherjee
> >  Abhishek Biswas
> >  Biswanath Banik 
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