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Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:16:54 -0400
To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>, Mikael <mindcooler AT gmail DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: I updated cygwin today and discovered something that made   me  glad
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At 04:56 PM 7/7/2005, you wrote:
>Mikael wrote:
>>I love cygwin and the tools ported to it. I wish I was a more knowledgeable person so I could contribute to the project and just not praise it. 
>
>I started with zero knowledge about Cygwin and zero knowledge about
>programming five years back.  Just start now, it is not difficult!
>
>My first packages were for my own use, I'm running Cygwin to do my
>work and there were many packages missing which I needed, so I started
>to build them myself.


And there's more than one way to contribute.  Helping with docs, with 
questions, with testing, etc. are ways to help out too.  You don't need
to program to contribute.  So while I think Gerrit's suggestion is a 
great one if you're so inclined, you have alternatives as well. :-)



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