[gnome-love] New Set of Fingers Seeking Direction

[Peter Crackenberg <pscracke georgefox edu>]

Hi Gnomers,

My name is Peter Crackenberg, I'm currently a student, and I have been 
interested as of late in the Open Source movement. As I've changed 
distributions, display managers, text editors, what have you, the one 
program that has really been nice for me to use is GNOME.

Because of this, I thought I should put my money where my mouth is and 
start helping the project that I like and use.

My problem is where to start. As I look at the project list, nothing 
really stuck out at me. I have experience in several languages (Java, 
C++, Python, PHP) and experience with HTML and CSS, but no experience in 
platform specific development, and no specific experience with designing 
for the GNOME environment.

The Documentation project sounded like something I would be interested 
in, but I don't really have experience with the GNOME environment, so I 
am not sure I am confident with writing documentation for it. I also 
thought that QA would be something I could do, but I don't know how 
rigorous I would be testing software.

Could perhaps some more experienced people on the list speak to the 
projects for new recruits, and perhaps offer some suggestions as to 
where to go?

Many thanks,

-Peter S. Crackenberg