[libre-riscv-dev] Hi, I am new and like to work, contribute to this project

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020, 23:57 Veera <vklr at vkten.in> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am Veera Kumar and like to work, contribute to this project.
> I am settled in India. I am following the happenings of this project for a
> year.
>

Welcome!

>
> It is a very useful Libre SOC project and I always wanted one for many
> years.
> Sifive boards are very costly and also they lack a GPU and perhaps even if
> some
> comes it may be proprietory with hidden backdoors, bugs, lack of
> documentation
> and ease of using and integrating.
>
> I am a self taught software user, developer and using Linux for 15 years.
> I have knowledge in use of Linux distributions for personal purposes and
> have
> developed my own private personal Linux distribution using LFS/CLFS
> instructions.
> So I have knowledge in installing open source softwares from sources and
> doing system
> administration. I have used Redhat, Fedora, Debian and few others.
>

Neat!

>
> Skills I Know:
> 1) Linux Distribution building
> 2) System administration
> 3) Shell, C, awk, Perl, Python, Lua, HTML, PHP
> 4) Develop websites, run VPS on Linux
>
> I have very less knowledge of Digital design, HDL, FPGA's and ASIC's.
> But have user level knowledge of computer hardware and discrete electronic
> components.
>
> If I may be of some use please tell me.
>

I don't know right now, but I'm sure we can find plenty of things for you
to do.

Jacob Lifshay