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nanbudh
September 8th, 2006, 11:25 PM
i am a hobbyist programmer in vb.net, c#, MSAccess database, actionscript(macromedia flash) and i would like to contribute my bit to ubuntu. could anybody give me some project ideas to work upon? something which is useful and does not take years.
po0f
September 9th, 2006, 12:44 AM
What interests you personally? Music, games, IM, whatever? Search sf.net for similar projects and contribute to those.
Kingsley
September 9th, 2006, 01:17 AM
a clone of windows live messenger :).
stanz
September 9th, 2006, 05:29 PM
A "GUI enhancement/adjustment" ...
Refer to this thread. (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=226023)
Thanks!!
searayman
September 9th, 2006, 07:37 PM
a dock that you don't need a compositor and xgl to use. There are no good mac osx like docks for us gnome usres to use, thats easy to get going and make it easy to add launcher and such. And maybe be creative and don't make it look lie the typical dock.
haxer
September 9th, 2006, 07:50 PM
Please do an Msn messenger look a like to the newest msn messenger availble on windows xp please i would even like to pay for it im missing it so hate gaim lousy version :(

Please please please ;)
kroiz
September 10th, 2006, 03:04 PM
Please write a program to bring peace to the middle east.
I am willing to pay, please please please
haxer
September 10th, 2006, 04:43 PM
he asks for peace yeah that would be great but dude this isnt matrix? Or:S
kroiz
September 11th, 2006, 01:46 AM
http://code.google.com/soc/ubuntu/about.html
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GoogleSoC2006
those are the ideas from the google summer of code.
nanbudh
September 13th, 2006, 10:50 AM
Guys thanks for your warm replies. i think i should make an effort towards building a messenger. i know not a thing about messenger programming but i have to waste a life anyway and this is a much noble way of doing it:D
kroiz
September 14th, 2006, 02:00 AM
Guys thanks for your warm replies. i think i should make an effort towards building a messenger. i know not a thing about messenger programming but i have to waste a life anyway and this is a much noble way of doing it:D

But if you join an existing project you will have an easier start, better chances of finishing and better chances of contributing.

building a messenger is a very big task, I think it would be better (for you and for the comunity also :)) if you start by contributing to a already existing project.

why not email gaim and ask to help.
or atleast review their code to get a magnitude of such a project.