Your resume is fine, now try and find your niche. One of the simplest tasks is to install the system on your home machine and start using it, as you use it more and more you will discover bugs which may be in the operating system or in the applications you are running. You can further research these bugs and try and patch them.
This will give you an insight how the code in large projects are organised and how it is maintained. This will not be a quick job.
It's a long journey, you will need to do research on operating systems - try the book by Andrew S Tanenbaum. And then there is driver development - again there are lots of books out there.
But if you are a beginner, then install the system to learn how to use it and how to develop applications on it. That way you will improve your
programming skills and learn more about the operating system. Your applications will hopefully become a saleable commodity as will your improved support skills.
Well done for your enthusiasm. Its great.
TS
From: hugh.mayfield <address@hidden> To: address@hidden Sent: Tuesday, 17 September 2013, 22:37 Subject: Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Potential new developer
On 2013-09-16 17:13, Sam Geeraerts wrote: > Op Sun, 15 Sep 2013
23:23:05 +0000 (UTC) > schreef Hugh Mayfield <address@hidden>: > >> I'm just beginning to develop my C skills. I don't know other >> languages other than BASIC. I appreciate my resume coming to this >> project isn't ideal, but I'm *very* keen to learn and would *love* to >> contribute to gNewSense. I would be *honoured* to contribute to this >> project. >> >> Let me know if there are things I can do. > > Welcome to our humble community.
Thank you.
> > We don't have many todo items specific to C right now. Taking on > Epiphany [1] is a bit heavy for a beginner. :) But learning the basics > of patching a package [2] is certainly useful in order to solve many of > our bugs [3].
What skills are
needed? I'll learn whatever is most in demand.
> >> I've created an account on Savannah but got an error when I tried to >> create one on the website? > > Sorry about that. It's a short term measure against the increasing spam > we've been having [4]. I hope to enable account creation again in a few > days.