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Just to start this discussion off, PVC is a new project that is a great opportunity for people to ease into writing OSS .NET code.

I believe in the .NET OSS community. Its small but growing and we need to bring more people in. I believe in watsi. We're hoping that helping others is a good motivator to get someone to take that first step. For me, that was all that was needed and I've been contributing to open source for 5 years now!

So the gist here is to create a plugin for this new Gulp-inspired build system, PVC, and in return, $50 gets donated to a person in medical need via Watsi.

Very cool.

I have no idea how to write build system plugins, but it looks simple enough. I have no idea what sort of plugins they're looking for, but I see they have a list of 'help wanteds' here: https://github.com/pvcbuild/pvc/issues

My tech infatuation at the moment is TypeScript, so I'm going to try my hand at a TypeScript plugin now, we'll see how it goes!

+1 for encouraging open source contributions while helping people in need.

Is PVC Windows-only?

The current version is .NET only, but we're working on Mono support thanks to some work by the scriptcs team [1]. I'd expect a package in the next few weeks.

[1] https://github.com/scriptcs/scriptcs/issues/80

PVC + Watsi – Plugins for People