BRL-CAD (Org ID 5154791065911296)
Task ID 6025478085279744 | Task Definition ID 5704483747135488
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Title: [EVERYONE] Get familiar with our BRL-CAD community resources
Description: This task will help you get set up for other GCI tasks with BRL-CAD.  It's a 10-step checklist of things to do.  Pay attention, there's a quiz at the end. ;-)
1. read this contributor's guide to BRL-CAD: http://write.flossmanuals.net/contributors-guide-to-brl-cad/
2. browse all sections of the BRL-CAD website at http://brlcad.org especially the Docs section (it's a wiki)
3. go to http://beta.brlcad.org scroll to the bottom and subscribe to our (read-only) brlcad-news mailing list
4a. download and install Zulip, join the #Google Code-In channel on brlcad.zulipchat.com
4b. alternatively or if you want, join #brlcad on irc.freenode.net using an IRC client (see http://brlcad.org/wiki/IRC)
5. browse BRL-CAD's current tasks (more get added throughout GCI), find a favorite 
6. say hello on zulip or irc, and tell us your favorite (e.g., "Hi I'm Jane, participating in GCI.  The Appleseed project tasks sound really interesting."
7. browse our Sourceforge project pages at https://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/
8. check out our Facebook page (images especially) at http://fb.me/brlcad

Quiz questions:
* A. BRL-CAD is correctly pronounced as "[WHAT]"?
* B. the 3 CSG Boolean operations are Union, Intersection, and [WHAT]? 
* C. BRL-CAD main repository has between a: 0-7000, b: 7001-70000, or c: 70001-100000 commits 
* Bonus: BRL-CAD's database format is version [WHAT]?

SUBMIT a screenshot of you introducing yourself on Zulip or IRC

SUBMIT your quiz answers
Tags: getting started

Categories: Documentation & Training
Is Beginner: Yes
Time given to complete: 3 days

Mentors: armin.stebich@gmail.com, brlcad@gmail.com, vasco.costa@gmail.com, gaurav.ishwerdas@gmail.com, deeky.sharma@gmail.com, erik.greenwald@gmail.com, odybenko@gmail.com, amrit3701@gmail.com, shubhamrathore1947@gmail.com, indrplus@gmail.com, DanielMRossberg@gmail.com
Student: Agape Gonzales (ID 5125138225823744)

Status: COMPLETED (2017-12-08 06:06:35)
Last modified: 2017-12-07 11:25:19