Hey guys, I am a 2nd year university student on winter break and I am currently learning c# by myself right now. I really learn by writing code (like the rest of us i assume) and I would love to contribute to an open source project using c#. I was really wondering where to start... I've been doing some googling and I have checked sourceforge, and the projects that are looking for help (which seems like a small list) but I really do not know where to begin. I know people say to work in what you are interested in, but I am not sure where to start looking =p. Well anyway, any help you can give me or suggest me to a c# open source project that might accept beginners to the language (but not programming) be my guest thanks!
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I'd personally recommend F-spot. Best worked on under a GNU/Linux OS like (K)ubuntu. Check out the source, and have a go!
FrozenFire
2008-12-25 16:42:39
He asked about C# projects?
Garry Shutler
2008-12-25 20:31:54
Did you even bother checking what language these 2 projects use?
Can Berk Güder
2008-12-25 21:52:50
F-spot is written in C# isn't it? Just check out the source tree: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/f-spot/trunk/src/
DrJokepu
2008-12-26 04:20:16
I think fspot seems to have a really good system in place. Projects like these are what im looking for. Thanks!
Javed Ahamed
2008-12-26 04:31:12
@Can Berk: Did you check that yourself? F-spot is entirely C#, afaik. And why is it okay to work on C# software on windows which is entirely C/C++ and wrong to work on C# stuff on Ubuntu, also C/C++? The OS isn't even relevant. It's about the plain fact that F-spot was built for Linux. I say you're talking bullshit.
FrozenFire
2010-10-26 20:26:00
@FrozenFire: I was responding to Garry. See his comment on my answer.
Can Berk Güder
2010-10-26 20:45:43
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You could check out http://csharp-source.net/. It is a list open source software written in C#. There has got to be someone there willing to accept your assistance.
YonahW
2008-12-25 16:50:54
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You can contribute to my humble attempt at creating a TextMate clone for Linux. The project is at a very early stage, and every contribution will be appreciated.
Here's the GitHub repo: TuxMate.
Can Berk Güder
2008-12-25 16:51:48
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If you are looking for open source c# projects, check out Codeplex. There are a large number of C#/.NET projects there that you could contribute to.
Also, check out the answers to this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43649/how-to-get-involved-in-an-open-source-project
Steven Murawski
2008-12-25 16:58:45
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I recommend getting involved with something that's related to Mono. But I think I might be a little biased here, because I really like what the mono people have done, and I'm a big mono fan.
Pop Catalin
2008-12-25 22:12:24
Even though I use MS.Net, I agree entirely. Mono is a great project to get involved in.
Jonathan C Dickinson
2008-12-27 12:17:32
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My own personal experience has been that if you want to be involved with an open source project, start with one that you find useful to you personally (or your company). So if there's a C# app, or library that you've used and found useful (or if you can think of ways for it to be more useful), contribute to it! That could be in QA, bug triaging, testing, writing unit tests, submitting patches, and/or working directly on the code (usually that takes a while to build up to though).
Just my 2 cents
Lloyd Cotten
2008-12-26 02:46:49