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From: Martyn Pike <martyn at emconuk dot com>
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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:57:14 +0000
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Subject: Helping with FOSS dev
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Date: 2011-02-19T09:57:14+00:00
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Hi.  I am thinking about contributing some effort to FOSS projects.  I 
would like to focus on GPS, PolyORB, GtkAda and XMLAda.  I have a spare 
laptop that I can do this work on an I'm competent with Linux ( I will 
probably use CentOS or XUbuntu).

I know about libre.adacore.com and I can download sources etc.  I am 
interested in the rest of the developer community and I assume 
some/most of them watch this group.

Any pointers on what to look out for that a newbie FOSS dev on those 
projects needs to know ?

cheers. Martyn