[Gardeners] wants to contribute to Common Lisp community

[Paolo Amoroso]

arnuld <arnuld3 at gmail.com> writes:

>  i will come directly to the point: i want to contribute my time &
> skills to CommonLisp community. i did look at CL gardners and observed
[...]
> specifically i am interested in stuff related to OSs.

You might consider helping with the development and enhancement of
SBCL's sb-posix contrib module.  Here is the SBCL project page:

  http://sbcl.sourceforge.net


> <--- i decided to do a search. enter google. for the 1st time in my
> life i saw a web-page talking about Linux. I have heard of Linux (only
> once) during my 3 years of graduation but our teachers told us to stay
> away from Linux as it was not user friendly (yes they taught us
> exactly this thing), it does not have GUI, no double-click, you can
> not listen to songs, watch videos etc & out of 300 computers of my
> college every every single one runs on Windows & I always heard my
> "Lab technician" saying -- when we will get some better operating
> systems, why the world doesn't create anything except Windows--. i

There's something else you might do: let your friends, schoolmates and
colleagues know about Linux and Open Source.  Show them Linux doing
GUI, double-click, song and video playing, and maybe also Lisp.  Also
show them that you can give them a Linux CD with the blessing of its
developers and community, rather than a lawsuit.

Best wishes for your professional and personal life.


Paolo
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