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Gabor Szabo wrote: > in a blog post http://szabgab.com/blog/2009/09/1251862435.html > I recently asked how to make a project beginner friendly. > The best answer I got was to ask the beginners. Clever :-) > > So let me ask it on this list. > > As I think think the best way to learn Perl is tor practice a lot > and the best place to practice is an open source project I wonder > how can open source project become more beginner friendly? > > Many projects assume a lot of background already that beginners > might not yet have. What things would beginners need in order to > get involved in a project? Adding examples and comments as annotations to the standard documentation, just like with the documentation of many other products like MySQL and PostgreSQL and PHP. Example: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html (at the bottom) -- RuudThread Previous | Thread Next