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Abdallah Elshamy
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== F: Feeling fine == | == F: Feeling fine == | ||
* I am familiar with IRC and used it to get advice. | * I am familiar with IRC and used it to get advice. | ||
* I am familiar with mailing list subscribed to it. | * I am familiar with mailing list and subscribed to it. | ||
* I used Mercurial to submit a patch and have a good experience with other version control systems like git. | * I used Mercurial to submit a patch and have a good experience with other version control systems like git. | ||
* I built octave using make tool and was able (with the help of the maintainers) to add functions to the build system. | * I built octave using make tool and was able (with the help of the maintainers) to add functions to the build system. | ||
* What will make me actively stay in the community that I want to help in developing octave as it helped me in my study. besides, I believe that I will learn a lot from this. | * What will make me actively stay in the community that I want to help in developing octave as it helped me in my study. besides, I believe that I will learn a lot from this. | ||
== O: Only out of interest == | |||
* Did you ever hear about Octave before? | |||
* I heard about octave approximately two years ago in my colleges as an open source alternative for MATLAB since we have projects that used MATLAB and we needed a software with similar capabilities. | |||
* The first question concerning Octave I could not find an answer to rather quickly was how to add to the build system. With some searching and help from IRC channel and maintainers I was able to solve it. | |||