[ug-bosug] Participation in foss.in/2008

[S h i v]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Manish Chakravarty
<manishchaks at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 4:06 PM, S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> n. Add your ideas....
> Contributing Software into OpenSolaris / Solaris Express.
> I plan to bore the audience to death by talking about
> i) Obtaining the SFW tarball & getting your machine ready
> ii) walk through the SFW build / build system
> iii) writing the various files ( Makefiles / prototype / pkginfo  / )
> and putting them in the correct dirs and running a build
> iv) Getting them familiar with tools like bldenv(i) , nightly (1),  onbld  etc.
>
>
> If this idea is liked by the group, I will refine the idea further.
>

As per the CfP, the ideas that involving writing code is what is
required, but SFW related work would be primarily porting which has
been explicitly discouraged in the CfP.
If you can bring in elements of developing the software as the primary
activity, then this idea can be taken further.

-Shiv