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[Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Daniel,

It's a great thing that you want to contribute! Remember that you're not
limited
to a single project, you can take part in multiple ones. Contribution does
not
only mean code, it also means helping others, writing documentation,
artwork,
etc. Since you're a programmer, I guess that the code part will suit the
best for
you.

As for the mentioned projects, TBP/Bumblebee and MrMEEE/ironhide are both
forks of MrMEEE/bumblebee. Since Martin Juhl has dropped support for other
Linux distributions, it's not really helpful to all people since there is
more than
Ubuntu out of here. TBP/Bumblebee currently has developers with varying
developers. The most active ones use Ubuntu and Arch Linux.
https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee

Bumblebee is a temporary (1-2y?) "solution" until the Xorg developers have a
real solution. So, if you want to help with the graphics stack, I suggest
you reading the stuff on http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Development.
I've
no idea whether that is fully up-to-date, for that I recommend joining the
IRC
channel #nouveau.

Communication mostly go through mailing lists and IRC on Freenode.
Bumblebee users: #bumblebee
Bumblebee development: #bumblebee-dev
Nouveau: #nouveau
Xorg Development: #xorg-devel

Regards,
Peter
Bumblebee Developer

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Daniel Marth <danielmarth@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> A few months ago I bought a Dell XPS 17 L702X (i7-2720QM, NVIDIA GT 550M).
> I always trusted in the NVIDIA drivers, although closed source I never had
> problems in the past few years. Unfortunately I was unaware of Optimus...
> Now I want to tell you a bit about my person. I'm 18 years old and I have
> been programing C/C++ for 5 years and know several other languages (Java,
> Perl, Python). Another thing I already used is NASM on x86/x64-Linux. Linux
> (mostly Ubuntu/Kubuntu) has been running on my machines for 3 years now. I
> know that this isn't much compared to other people, but I'm permanently
> learning more and improving my skills.
> What now? I want to contribute! Of course I'm aware that it will take me
> several months or even years to produce anything useful. So does it make
> sense to start working on Bumblebee or IronHide or is this just a temporary
> solution until the Nouveau driver and X server get ready for this? Can you
> recommend me any good literature/tutorials? Any hints where to start?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Daniel Marth
>
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