= Getting Started as an OPW applicant =

Hooray!  Thanks for your interest in working on the Linux kernel.

If you run into any issues with this tutorial, please ask questions on the [https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen#Introduction #opw IRC channel]

TODO:
 * Outline of what this tutorial covers
 * If you run into any issues, ask on the opw irc channel, or email sarah.a.sharp at linux.intel.com
 * Step 0: install Linux on a home computer (alternative instructions for installing in a VM would be good, but I have no background in that).
 * Build a custom kernel
 * Find out which drivers you have installed (maybe plug in any USB devices on hand)
 * Make small change in one of the drivers (e.g. run checkpatch over them, or fix some grammer in the printks)
 * Or maybe pick a driver in staging and run checkpatch on it
 * Test your patch (may need to enable debugging)
 * Make a patch (link to art of patch description creation)
 * Send patch to kernel newbies mailing list as RFC (perhaps we need a separate mailing list?)