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Google Code-in 2014 BRL-CAD

Write a wiki page on joining the BRL-CAD project

completed by: bhargav

mentors: Kesha Shah, Hardeep Singh Rai

There are many ways to get involved with the BRL-CAD project. Like many open source projects, we have a community of contributors but it's not always clear to someone new (like yourself) how one can get involved.

This task requires learning about what possible ways one may contribute and to then write a page on our wiki explaining ways to contribute for others.

Here are some fantastic examples to follow and use as a reference:

  • https://wiki.gnome.org/JoinGnome
  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu
  • http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/
  • http://en.flossmanuals.net/contributors-guide-to-brl-cad/

Research the possible ways one can contribute to open source projects, learn about how people contribute to BRL-CAD (search the web, ask questions, search our website), and submit your article here. The wiki page/article you write should be modeled closely after the Gnome example but note that we do not have a lot of the same "teams" they do, but we do have similar ways to contribute.

When we agree that a draft looks good, you'll then upload your article to http://brlcad.org/wiki/Join