New member's introduction - Tomas Zahradnik

[Tomáš Zahradník <tz...@gmail.com>]

Hi,
I am a high school (gymnasial) student in 12th grade from Czech Republic,
Prague. Since programming belongs to my biggest interests, I have a great
motivation to extend my knowledge and gain valuable experiences. So far I
have been learning through books, contests (codeforces, topcoder) and
mostly through writting projects with bus factor 1. I dare to change it.
Therefore I want to join Apache OpenOffice. I am slightly advanced in C++
and Java. I have just finished an engine for a card game called Raining
(variety of mau-mau) and going to post it as open source with hope of
finding someone who would help with UI (plus I created four different
strategies how to play the game, run simulation and did statistics).

As beginner with open sources I am still a little bit confused and not sure
where it would be the best to start. I would be glad for some advice.
Thank you.
Tomas Zahradnik

Re: New member's introduction - Tomas Zahradnik

[Pavel Janík <Pa...@Janik.cz>]

Hi Tomáš,

On Feb 14, 2013, at 11:06 PM, Tomáš Zahradník wrote:

> I am a high school (gymnasial) student in 12th grade from Czech Republic,
> Prague.

should you need any help in the project/with AOO, just ask.

> and Java. I have just finished an engine for a card game called Raining
> (variety of mau-mau) and going to post it as open source with hope of
> finding someone who would help with UI (plus I created four different
> strategies how to play the game, run simulation and did statistics).

Good. I prefer mariáš though ;-)
-- 
Pavel Janík

Re: New member's introduction - Tomas Zahradnik

[Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org>]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Tomáš Zahradník <tz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a high school (gymnasial) student in 12th grade from Czech Republic,
> Prague. Since programming belongs to my biggest interests, I have a great
> motivation to extend my knowledge and gain valuable experiences. So far I
> have been learning through books, contests (codeforces, topcoder) and
> mostly through writting projects with bus factor 1. I dare to change it.

Hello Tomáš,

Welcome to the Apache OpenOffice project!

We have many university students volunteering with the project, but I
think you are our first high school student.

> Therefore I want to join Apache OpenOffice. I am slightly advanced in C++
> and Java. I have just finished an engine for a card game called Raining
> (variety of mau-mau) and going to post it as open source with hope of
> finding someone who would help with UI (plus I created four different
> strategies how to play the game, run simulation and did statistics).
>

Cool.

> As beginner with open sources I am still a little bit confused and not sure
> where it would be the best to start. I would be glad for some advice.

Well, you start with what you already know.

What operating system do you want to develop on?  We build on Windows,
Linux and MacOS.  Most developers will tell you that it is easier to
get started on Linux or MacOS.

We have some "New Volunteer Orientation" pages to help new volunteers
learn more about the project and how it works.  If you are working on
an open source project for the first time it is good to review these
pages:

http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/

Then, when you get to the "Introduction to Development" page, it will
try to help you get started with your first build of OpenOffice.  But
I can almost guarantee that your build will not work at first.  So
if/when you get an error, and can't solve it, post a question to the
list and one of the other developers will try to help.

Once you have a working build, then let us know.  We have a list of
"easy tasks" that you might want to try.

Regards,

-Rob
> Thank you.
> Tomas Zahradnik