[Pipet Devel] welcome

[Timothy H. Keitt]

I am a lurker. :-)  Really what I want to do is evaluate piper to see if it fits my
needs (environmental systems modeling, spatial ecology).  It seems that the first
order of business is packaging.  If users can download and try the software using
rpm/dpkg, then they will get interested contributing.  (My preference would be debs as
I'm running debian.  Most of the support libraries are already available in woody.)

Cheers,
Tim

"J.W. Bizzaro" wrote:

> Marcus Rosell wrote:
> >
> > Well I don?t intend to be just a lurker. I want to help :-)
> > I?ve just been running Linux for 2 months, but I have programmed allot for other
> > platforms (mostly amiga) and microprocessors. Now days I mostly program in C/C++,
> > but there were day that i thought that Assembler was the only right way to hack.
>
> Great.  Well, for people interested in C/C++ programming and the
> infrastructure of Piper, I'd recommend helping with either the Brokering Layer
> (lead by Jarl Van Katwijk) or the Processing Layer (lead by Jean-Marc Valin).
>
> For people interested in C/C++ and GUI programming, I believe there are some
> things to do in the BlueBox UI (lead by Nile Geisinger of dLoo).
>
> In any case, anyone interested in helping should first get Piper to run on
> their home systems.  There's a recent snapshot of the CVS module in anon FTP.
> Follow the instructions for "building from CVS".  And, PLEASE contact the list
> if you are having trouble.  I hear that omniORB has trouble with FreeBSD.
>
> The second step would be to join The Open Lab, which is the project management
> system we're using:
>
>     http://theopenlab.org
>
> >From there, you will get a shell account, CVS access, etc.  But, ask me to
> "add" you to the project when ready.
>
> The third step would be to look at the code for the layers you're
> considering.  If you find something that suits your interests, contact the
> respective leader via this list, and they'll tell you what needs working on.
>
> > This is my first open source project so I don?t know how much time it is involved
> > , but I intend to help the much I can.
>
> Oh, there's no time commitment at all.  Do as much or as little as you want.
> We're just glad to have the help.
>
> Cheers.
> Jeff
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Timothy H. Keitt
Department of Ecology and Evolution
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Phone: 631-632-1101, FAX: 631-632-7626
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~keitt/