Thousand of opensource project were created every years. Each project has its own requirements such as kind of programming language used, main library code, system environment ..... etc. Beside that each project was targeted for its purpose. E.g. Gnome targeted for desktop application, especially graphical user interface. Sadly many beginners who want to join to this opensource projects still don't know how to start it, what they have to do first, and so on; fortunately the Gnome team had made an official web guide for beginners who want to start joining opensource project named GnomeLove .
" GnomeLove is an initiative that aims to help people who want to get started contributing to GNOME. This page offers a collection of links to useful resources for aspiring developers, testers, documenters or simply GNOME enthusiasts. "http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove
This guide provides many information which will be needed by beginner. The information which provided are:
1. Contacts included mailing list E-Mail and IRC channel.
2. Getting started
3. Technical guides
4. Giving love to projects
____1). Case 1: You don't want to work on a specific project
____2). Case 2: You don't know which project you want to work on
____3). Case 3: You want to work on a specific project
____4). Case 4: You want to work on new projects or new features
5. GNOME Love Days
6. Articles and tutorials
____1). Tips & Tricks
____2). Internationalization
____3). GUI
____4). Other
7. Books
This Gnome project guide can be used as Starter Pack to join on Gnome project and will be useful for other opensource project.
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