On Sat, 07 May 2011 20:06:01 +0000, caf4926 wrote:
> I do a bit here and there
Same here, in addition to work I do here, I participate in the project
lists discussing topics I consider important to the overall project.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
I try my best to help people on the forums as long as my knowledge and free time allows me to do so. It’s a great learning experience for me as well btw.
On seldom occasions I report bugs to the bugzilla as I usually don’t find many 
Best regards,
Greg
In my case since I couldn’t code to save my life I do what i can here when I can. Also, update the HCL Thanks for reminding me haven’t done that for 11.4 yet.
I found a bug once, and it got fixed. Does that counts Other then that, I remember writing 1 or 2 guides in forum, helped couple of people solve problems. Ohh and that one time, I made people feel warm and fuzzy (–>(http://forums.opensuse.org/english/other-forums/community-fun/general-chit-chat/451007-i-love-you-guys-really.html))
I reported bugs, did some translations and am a mod in a pretty big German openSUSE-focused forum. I regularly try to help in several other Linux-forums.
The thing is: I never felt like a contributor. What I do within the community I do because it’s fun and interesting - even though forums can be annoying from time to time (same questions every day, flamers, n00bs running rootservers etc.), after all it’s still fun. I always found the mere act of learning and sharing knowledge very satisfying. I also am fascinated what a community of (mainly) volunteers can create, that it works out without the need of being driven by money. Swarm intelligence fascinates me, and the Linux community is a great example for that. It’s like being part of a huge experiment that seems chaotic from the outside but still works pretty well.
Can I add this to my reply as well… well said, gropiuskalle… It is really good to see what a community can create!
I am small candle compared to you guys.
But i still try every now and then and think of that small tokens are counting too.
They do. So keep on keeping on. 
Some of the things I do:
oh god … you confound having irc op as a right but it is privilege. And you apparently don’t even understand to what *punishing is. But it’s hopefully all over now. you are piqued somewhere in corner with dark thoughts that the world is wronging to your exceptionality which is not about to happen no matter what you think about … you’ve learned up ppl in #suse to propose penalties to other folks. compared to this is your petty dictatorship nothing.
you’ve seed an extraordinary evil, judging all but nothing. Even the fact that, you’ve disconnected from freenode is pathetic. And you know good why.
ave, d