Re: GNU Octave Contribution

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 01:45:14 +0530, sheetal shalini wrote:
> I am new to Open Source, but would like to contribute to your organization.
> Can someone guide me along by giving me a task?
> I know C++, C, Python, HTML, CSS, JS, Django. I am ready to take up tasks
> that require 7-8 hours a week.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 02:00:09 +0530, sheetal shalini wrote:
> I am working on Scilab now, developing tools for it.I want to do the same
> for Octave. I want to contribute to GNU OCTAVE on an open source platform.
> I know C++, C, Python, HTML, CSS, JS and Django. I am very keenly
> interested in working for GNU Octave, and develop tools for it, make it
> competent to Matlab.
> Please assign me a suitable  task, and i am ready to give more than  8 hrs
> a week for it.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 02:04:30 +0530, sheetal shalini wrote:
> I have posted on the IRC channel multiple times, but got no response. This
> is the only means of contact i got. Please do guide me along. I have been
> developing tools for Scilab. So i am competent enough to do so with ease in
> Octave. And i am keenly interested for the same.
> Looking forward to an early response.

Hi Sheetal, welcome to the Octave community. Others have replied with
some good ideas, I just have a few more comments.

Subscribe to and follow the maintainers mailing list.

If you were on the IRC channel, I didn't see your messages, please be
patient with IRC since many of us idle and we are in several different
time zones.

No one here will assign you a task, the best way to get involved is to
have an interest and assign it to yourself. There are certainly many
tasks to be done, see the lists referenced by Nir and Rik.

I see you posted your interest with the Debian development community as
well. I hope between Debian and Octave you find something that you will
be able to contribute your time and skills to.

Hope to see you around,

-- 
mike