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Hello, |
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The Adopt a Developer[1] project hasn't gotten any requests[2] from |
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developers needing hardware or shell accounts or books or anything |
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else, so I'm just writing a little note to encourage any developer (who |
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has been a developer for at least 6 months) who could use extra stuff |
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to improve Gentoo to please request it. |
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As mentioned before, to test the waters, we are only dealing with items |
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worth about $100US or less. Some ideas for things you could request: |
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used PDAs (the pda herd really could use some help), GPS units to help |
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with the gps herd, extra RAM to improve compile times, a hard drive, |
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Logictech mice (sys-apps/locomo), TV tuner card (for PVR packages), |
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wireless cards to help the wireless herd, etc, etc. Arch team members |
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could request hardware to test hardware specific packages on their |
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architecture. |
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A few community members have offered[3] hosting with shell access if |
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anyone could use that to improve Gentoo. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/adopt-a-dev/index.xml |
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[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/adopt-a-dev/request.txt |
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[3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/adopt-a-dev/index.xml#doc_chap8 |
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-Thomas |
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