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[Bruno Pagani <bruno.n.pagani@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would add a precision : currently, IronHide supports only Ubuntu, but 
in fact MrMEEE also dropped support from himself to IronHide. Nothing 
done on twitter, his blog, github (either code and issues) since one 
month, and in fact before the little update done at this time, there 
wasn't anything in the former month too...

So, you could either choose nouveau/xorg developement, but that's very 
low level, retro-engineering, so as a first project, I think that it is 
too hard, however, that's only my opinion, you're free to decide.

Anyway, we would be very happy to count one more developers in the whole 
group.

Le 21/12/2011 22:02, Lekensteyn a écrit :
> 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 
> <mailto: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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