Introduction :)

[manoj.iyer at canonical.com]

Kevin,

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/KnowledgeBase

Might be a good starting point, that page might answer some of your 
*starter* questions that you might have.

Cheers
--- manjo

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Kevin DuBois wrote:

> Hey everyone, let me introduce myself. Briefly, my name is Kevin DuBois
> (about page <http://kdubois.net/?page_id=2>), 4th year Computer
> Engineering student at the University of Michigan. I understand how
> kernels work, and have been tinkering with them for a while (ie about a
> year), but have never really done any "useful" work with them so to
> speak, and would like to change that by helping out this team. I've been
> around open source projects before, and have done some work with Compiz
> (a few animations) and FFmpeg (audio work mostly).
>
> I've found that with getting involved with open source projects, there's
> an introductory phase I like think of as "the idiot phase", where  your
> efforts are a bit undirected (and sometimes not even useful), and thats
> pretty much where I am now. My cursory goal is to help out with one bug
> a day, and do more as my confidence in what I'm doing increases. Feel
> free to let me know if what I'm doing is stupid, constructive criticism
> is usually how I learn best.
>
> I've always liked "flipping bits" and a good challenge, and hope I can
> help out. I got some useful pointers today in #ubuntu-kernel, and if
> anyone has more, they are welcome to share.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin DuBois
> kdub432 at gmail.com
>
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