In search of an Open Source project

[lmemsm]

I do a lot of Open Source development just for me. Basically, it's the philosophy of scratching an itch. If there's something I want and no one's working on it, I work on it on my own. True to Open Source philosophy, if I want something done, I do it myself. I typically assume not many other people will be interested in what I'm interested in anyway.

However, it is nice to have a community. It's helpful to have other developers to discuss designs with or other users to test out new programs or people to help find new and interesting code and resources to explore. I've asked before in various places, but I'm going to ask again here and now. If anyone knows of a FLOSS project in need of volunteers, please share information about it with me. I'd be happy to add them to my list of FLOSS projects looking for volunteers. I also really want to find a project that's a good fit with my own goals and donate some of my time and expertise.

I work a lot with lightweight, cross-platform FLOSS applications and build them from source, modify them, fix bugs, add features, etc. I've ported applications to a wide variety of platforms including more unusual operating systems. I would love to get involved with a small Linux or BSD distribution or even an original or unusual operating system and port and/or build some programs for it. I also use Windows a lot and would be happy to help out a Windows or DOS project that's involved in building FLOSS applications. I have a lot of experience porting FLOSS programs to operating systems like these. I do have my own build system/package management tools and I'm not interested in switching to another system at this time. I also have my own preferences as to which libraries I use when building applications. At this time, I'm working primarily with C and occasionally with C++. It would be fun to get involved with others interested in making their own distribution or putting together FLOSS applications to share with people.

So, if you know of a project that might need help or have a project you're working on that's in need of volunteers, please let me know. If you just want to compare notes on lightweight and/or cross-platform portable software or you want to talk about C programming in general, feel free to contact me. More contact information available here: http://www.distasis.com/connect.htm