**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Sat Feb 17 03:00:01 2018 Feb 17 07:02:48 Hi everyone! I want to contribute to Beagleboard.org as a part of GSoC...read the ideas page, found the spell and speak idea interesting, can anyone guide me how to get started? Feb 17 07:37:11 Anirban: hey ! have you used beagleboard before ? are you acquainted with the basics of it ? Feb 17 07:38:37 and did you try to find what "speak and spell" by Texas Instruments exactly is ? and if there is some documentation about it online ? Feb 17 07:39:30 There was some discussion on IRC about this last month IIRC Feb 17 07:40:06 Anirban: And I assume you already checked the prerequisites, ie the software skills required. Feb 17 07:40:50 Check out the logs for 3rd Feb Feb 17 07:41:59 http://logs.nslu2-linux.org/livelogs/beagle-gsoc/beagle-gsoc.20180203.txt Feb 17 11:24:30 zeekhuge: Actually I'm not acqainted with beagleboard, I have used only Arduino before, and have programming experience in C, Python and basics of node.js, and the software requirements of Speak and Spell will cover it up mostly Feb 17 11:25:26 Anirban: and you are a linux user mostly ? Feb 17 11:26:02 although I dont think that will be strictly required, but will make you more comfortable if you have linux based OS experience. Feb 17 11:26:12 I searched about Speak and Spell from the ideas page and got a basic idea about it, but got more useful information from the log information that u provided here Feb 17 11:26:34 I am quite comfortable using Ubuntu Feb 17 11:26:47 You mean the one provided by Abhishek. Feb 17 11:26:58 cool ! Feb 17 11:27:29 yeah actually! Sorry I forgot to mention him Feb 17 11:27:42 so you might wanna look into what is `TIesr` and related things .. Feb 17 11:28:08 Yeah sure Feb 17 11:29:43 zeekhuge: Will I require previous development experience with beagleboard for this project? Feb 17 11:30:59 Previous dev experience on BB boards is always good in your proposal ... Feb 17 11:36:12 Ok so how do I get started, means any issues or bugs I can work on, or any codebase to analyse... Feb 17 11:46:32 So, I have little info about the project you are interested in, and for project specifics, you will have to wait for jkridner or erik.welsh and others who were discussing the project on the IRC. they will help you better on this. Feb 17 11:46:57 they'll mostly be up here by 8-9 pm IST Feb 17 11:47:15 As "in general starting points : " Feb 17 11:48:15 If you can get your hands on a beaglebone board and play around with it. That would be great. Feb 17 11:48:45 - be on IRC often and keep discussing on the plan/issues you face with the mentors if you are serious about it. Feb 17 11:49:05 try to get as much info about your project and similars from the open web. Feb 17 11:50:37 Like some opensource implementations of SnS ... etc Feb 17 11:54:24 Ok Sure **** ENDING LOGGING AT Sun Feb 18 03:00:00 2018