There will certainly be more competent respondents than me, but I'll offer my two cents. I'm impressed with IBM's work. Big Blue has always been forward looking and of the highest quality. Their efforts to develop (and train others to develop) Linux are very professional. I visited their many Linux development forums a few times and was encouraged to proceed beyond my skill level. -----Original Message----- From: Clay Fandre [SMTP:clay at fandre.com] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 12:19 PM To: tclug-list Subject: [TCLUG] Getting started with an open source project I'm working for a "corporate" client that wants to start an open-source project, but lacks experience with open-source projects and isn't sure how they operate. To get a better idea of how the world of OSS works, they would like to "get their feet wet" by contributing to an existing project, and eventually starting their own. They have asked me to provide some "knowledge" and experience on how they can get started, since they know I run the TCLUG. Since I know some of you have contributed to projects more than I have, I am asking you. Does anyone have past experiences with OSS projects that you could share? Lessons learned? Thanks. -- Clay _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list