[Biojava-dev] New Developer

[Jared Flatow]

Hi all,

I am interested in getting involved with the BioJava community. I  
have just joined a Bioinformatics Core, and we use a lot of R/ 
BioConductor right now, however we have some new projects that we  
would like to begin working in BioJava. I have checked out the source  
and compiled, however I noticed that the README was slightly out of  
sync with the project (the build targets listed are not the same as  
the build.xml). I made the updates to the README and would have liked  
to commit them, but as I am sure you are all aware, I do not have  
write access. I cannot yet say how much or little I would be able to  
contribute to the project, or even in what areas, however I think it  
could be beneficial to the community if I were permitted to make  
changes like this. I am sure synchronizing documentation is the last  
thing on your minds, and often it is hard to see that instructions  
might be unclear when you have been working on a project for a long  
time. I also think it could be a good opportunity to get to know the  
community and perhaps ease my way into becoming a more active  
developer. Please let me know what you think!

Thanks!
Jared