Interest in ReactOS and some requets

[Arko Provo Mukherjee]

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

[Zachary Gorden]

Hello to all three of you.  I'm one of the two release engineers for ReactOS
and we're happy to have anyone come and help.  To at least point you guys in
the right direction, here is a link from the ReactOS site.  These provide
basic tutorials on building and testing ROS (though we badly need to update
the testing sections).

http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Build_Environment

One of the difficult parts about writing the ReactOS kernel is that you need
to learn about the internals of the NT architecture.  That link will point
you to at least be able to compile ReactOS, and if you have questions,
you're welcome to pop into the IRC channel like Aleksey (Fireball) said.
Possible online win32 tutorials you could take a look at are as follows:

http://www.relisoft.com/win32/index.htm

http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/

These are of course starting points that you can look at on your own.  And
of course the other devs would be happy to help you (providing you can catch
them online).