<div dir="ltr"><div class="im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear Sir,</div><div class="im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div class="im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
> Start contributing to the linux-kernel, the biggest open source project,<br>> finding bugs, submitting patches etc.<br><br></div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>>That is probably the single most awkward suggestion I have read in a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>>while. Especially because you didn't think it was appropriate to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>>attempt to understand what motivates Mohit to work more hard than</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>>usual or, take complex problems.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Sorry sir if I have offended you or others in community but my intention was just to get him started. Actually I started in a similar way.I found some bugs in some drivers, tried submitting a patch for removing it. So I was just trying to suggest him  as to h</font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">ow to get started.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Regards,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Saket Sinha</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com" target="_blank">sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Saket Sinha <<a href="mailto:saket.sinha89@gmail.com">saket.sinha89@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>

> Start contributing to the linux-kernel, the biggest open source project,<br>
> finding bugs, submitting patches etc.<br>
<br>
</div>That is probably the single most awkward suggestion I have read in a<br>
while. Especially because you didn't think it was appropriate to<br>
attempt to understand what motivates Mohit to work more hard than<br>
usual or, take complex problems.<br>
<br>
<<a href="http://www.itworld.com/it-management/356932/7-open-source-projects-cut-your-teeth-and-ones-avoid" target="_blank">http://www.itworld.com/it-management/356932/7-open-source-projects-cut-your-teeth-and-ones-avoid</a>><br>

is an article that was recently published and,<br>
<<a href="http://opensource.com/life/13/4/ten-ways-participate-open-source" target="_blank">http://opensource.com/life/13/4/ten-ways-participate-open-source</a>> is<br>
something you can read up on.<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
sankarshan mukhopadhyay<br>
<<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan</a>><br>
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