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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">I suggest playing around and contributing to the python-*clients, as they are a great way to see how different projects are used. Aside from that, strong code reviews are always appreciated (more so than patches sometimes). FWIW, you could manage with a windows laptop, for a while I just used virtualbox with a ubuntu dev environment to work on. Happy to answer any question you may have, I'm usually on #openstack-keystone and #openstack-dev (irc handle is stevemar)</font><br>
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Steve Martinelli<br>
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<img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=0ABBF4E2DFC027D98f9e8a93df938@ca.ibm.com" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Jeff Learman ---2015/06/27 11:07:40 AM---I'm an OpenStack newbie, but a seasoned programmer with deca"><font size="2" color="#424282" face="sans-serif">Jeff Learman ---2015/06/27 11:07:40 AM---I'm an OpenStack newbie, but a seasoned programmer with decades of experience in data communications</font><br>
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<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">From: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">Jeff Learman <jeff.learman@gmail.com></font><br>
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<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">Date: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">2015/06/27 11:07 AM</font><br>
<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">Subject: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">[openstack-dev] Newb looking to contribute</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">I'm an OpenStack newbie, but a seasoned programmer with decades of experience in data communications (especially IP stack lower layers) and embedded systems. I'm fluent in Python, C, C++, and Java.</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">I'm looking for some pro-bono work to do, and am open to any suggestions, advice, or pleas for help. I'll need a bit of mentoring, mostly in terms of mentioning terms to study up on.</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">I know about as much about OpenStack as I can learn from the Wikipedia entry. I started setting it up on Ubuntu on Cisco UCS for a project where I worked, but no longer work there. I don't have any resources other than a Windows laptop and the Internet, but I could wrestle up an x86-based Linux box if necessary (not a rack server, though -- low budget, I'd take an old tower, install a new MOBO, and go from there.)</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">I'm willing to do tedious grunt work, as long as I'm learning something in the process (at least, to begin with.) For example, if there's a desire to convert to Python 3, that'd be a great way to get involved, learn a lot, and make a contribution, with minimal deep knowledge required about OpenStack, and hopefully relatively minimal risk.</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">Thanks!</font><br>
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