<div dir="auto">Thanks, I'll check them out. </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 28, 2018 10:11 AM, "Heiko Tietze" <<a href="mailto:tietze.heiko@gmail.com">tietze.heiko@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Fady, Welcome to LibreOffice! "Download" is a quite unspecific description of what you did before things went wrong (please don't *download* sources via zip). We have guides on our wiki [1] how to set-up the environment and a recent blog post [2] that recaps everything. Once you can build, you should read the GSoC intro [3] and find some easy hacks [4] to prove your coding skills. Ideally those patches show your expertise in an area where your want to contribute later. For ideas take a look at this page [5]. Hope you enjoy the time with LibreOffice, Heiko (UX mentor) [1a] <a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnLinux [1b" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnLinux [1b</a>] <a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnWindows" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnWindows</a> [2] <a href="https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2018/02/22/easyhacking-set-environment/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2018/02/22/easyhacking-set-environment/</a> [3] <a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC</a> [4] <a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/EasyHacks" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/EasyHacks</a> [5] <a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas</a> On 28.02.2018 08:58, fady esam wrote: > Hi I am Fady Essam 3rd year student at faculty of computer engineering ASU university, i have been using libre office for so long on my linux machine and i would like to contribute to that awesome open source project but i have run into sone problems > > - I downloaded the source code (the tar file) but it told me that it was a corrupted file > > -i am really good at c/c++ and java and have done many projects with them.. What should i do now to make myself good enough for a gsoc application? > > > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > <a href="mailto:LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org">LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice</a> > -- Dr. Heiko Tietze UX designer Tel. +49 (0)179/1268509 </blockquote></div></div>