Seam Team,<br><br>My name is Piotr (Peter) Steininger and I am a former Amentra/RedHat consultant living in the Washington, DC area. I&#39;ve worked on a number of consulting projects using Seam 2 as a solutions architect and a tech/dev lead. I
learned to love a lot of Seam&#39;s features (and got to know a lot of it
inside and out), and got to experience many challenges of using Seam in (both technical and political). Since the experience I gained has been paying my bills for a while, I feel that this is the time to pay back, and invest my time and skills into Seam and Weld, which I am very excited about and want to promote for future projects.<br>
<br>So I&#39;d like to contribute to
Seam 3 code in some way, to accelerate the time line. I would also love
to help build some solid examples (beyond booking, number guess, etc -
something with hands and legs - I have a few ideas, which I&#39;ll be putting down on paper pretty soon).<br><br>I checked out the sources for modules one by one, but I can&#39;t seem to build some of them (ie.
seam-bpm). Maven complains that it can&#39;t find
seam-parent:3.0.0-SNAPSHOT. I found a trace of it on
<a href="http://repository.sonatype.org">repository.sonatype.org</a>
(<a href="http://repository.sonatype.org/content/groups/public/org/jboss/seam/seam-parent/3.0.0-SNAPSHOT/">http://repository.sonatype.org/content/groups/public/org/jboss/seam/seam-parent/3.0.0-SNAPSHOT/</a>),
but no pom, just metadata.


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How can I get around it? 
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<p class="wikiPara">I have to admit I am totally new to the process of
contributing to open-source since I&#39;ve been on consulting gigs pretty much behind closed doors,
so I am not sure where to start. I tried to find some more detailed
developer docs, but I probably did not dig deep enough.
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I appreciate in advance any advice and direction.
</p>Thanks,<br><br>Piotr<br>