[Kstars-devel] I'd like to help...

[Jason Harris]

Hi Chris,

Christopher Kraft wrote:
>   Thanks for the reply. I haven't worked on an open source project
> before--I work for medical software firm--so I thought that I could best
> contribute by doing research and adding data about individual stars. I
> guess I was thinking thta I could help define those stars whose name
> displays as 'star' when the mouse hovers over the item.
Great.  You should coordinate with Milton, who was working on this last year.  
Here is the original thread on the topic:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kstars-devel&m=111767700226962&w=2

Hopefully, we'll hear from him soon so we can use whatever work he's already 
done.

>   I program all day long at work, so I am not really interested in coding
> in my spare time. I found KStars through the edubuntu distribution I setup
> for my son, so I would like to leverage helping you as an educational
> experience for him too. Something simple now, like data gathering,
> collecting thumbnails would be great. Maybe more later.
>
Sounds good.  Maybe you'd also be interested in contributing to our AstroInfo 
articles.  We haven't expanded that in a very long time, but it's something 
I'd like to continue workng on.

regards,
Jason

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