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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to get more experience??? Post 7422 by loadc on Wednesday 26th of September 2001 09:23:36 AM

09-26-2001

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May be GNU to you...

Aiiight-

The best places you can put out some effort and really gain experience as well as get your name out and meet some really awesome people to know is to volunteer some time to some of the Open Source projects. Open something up on Sourceforge, ask to help out on one of the *BSD projects (those guys will be a TREMENDOUS resource, they know that OS inside and out), ask to help out at the FSF, start your own project for the FSF, then ask if anyone would like to help you. Sometimes there are things people want to see done, but they do not have the time to put towards it themselves, but they are not against helping someone with the time to do it for them. So, ask if what people would like to see done to what projects (lurk some usenet groups and see what peopel are looking for). You may need to sit and learn some new things, there may be pieces you need to figure out before you could write new kernel modules, etc. In all seriousness, the GNU website usually has a link asking for those that would like to volunteer time or resources to the projects, that's a good place to start as well.
You won't get paid, but you don't seem to be asking to, the people working on these projects are amazing, top-level people (there are also a lot of average geeks on them as well, so don't be scared off), I don't think you could ask for a better place to get into programming and really get some hard-core exp.

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projects

projects(1)							   User Commands						       projects(1)

NAME

       projects - print project membership of user

SYNOPSIS

       projects [-dv] [ user]

       projects -l [projectname  [projectname...]]

DESCRIPTION

       The  projects  command prints on standard output the projects to which the invoking user or an optionally specified user belongs. Each user
       belongs to some set of projects specified in the project(4) file and possibly in the associated NIS maps and  LDAP  databases  for  project
       information.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -d	Prints only default project.

       -l	Prints verbose info on each project projectname. If no projectnames are given, info on all projects is printed.

       -v	Prints project descriptions along with project names.

OPERANDS

       The following operand is supported:

       projectnaDisplay information for the specified project.

       user	Displays project memberships for the specified user.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Displaying Membership for a Specified User

       example$ projects paul
       default beatles wings
       example$ projects ringo
       default beatles
       example$ projects -d paul
       beatles

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Successful completion.

       1	A fatal error occurred during execution.

       2	Invalid command line options were specified.

FILES

       /etc/project    Local database containing valid project definitions for this machine.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Stability		     |See below.		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       The invocation is Evolving. The human-readable output is Unstable.

SEE ALSO

       getdefaultproj(3PROJECT), getprojent(3PROJECT), project(4), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    13 May 2004 						       projects(1)