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The open source principles of participation
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| But times have changed, and open source isn't just about software anymore.
| Certainly that's still a large part of it, but there's so much more now that
| is called open source than ever before, and not all of it deals with
| software. There's lots of open source projects out there that don't require
| source code or software to be classified as an open source, or community
| project. Therefore, you no longer need to be able to code in order to
| participate. Actually, programming skills never were really a requirement
| for participation, but more a bonus skill.
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| A perfect example of this comes from a recent interview I did with Michael
| Shiloh of Open Moko. When I asked him about how people could participate in
| his project, he brought up a couple of very interesting examples of how
| people could participate without needing to know how to program. The first
| was a gentleman who came to the developers and said, "I'm a musician and I'd
| love to participate, but I don't know how to program." They immediately told
| him "Not a problem. We need people to write and record ring tones for us."
| which he could very easily do for them. Another example came from an artist
| who said more or less the same thing about himself, to which the developers
| said, "We could use someone to create icons and artwork for us."
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=462
Recent:
Some news is good news--online coaches will help shape $5 million ideas
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| And the best news for the open source community? The rules stipulate that
| applications must:
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| 1. Use or create digital, open-source technology as the code base.
| 2. Serve the public interest.
| 3. Benefit one or more specific geographic communities.
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| Past winners I have had the pleasure of meeting include Sir Tim Berners-Lee
| and Martin Moore ($350,000), Chris Csikszentmihályi, Mitchel Resnick, and
| Henry Jenkins ($5,000,000), and Adrian Holovaty ($1,100,000). Bravo, all! As
| for future winners, they could include you, if you have a great idea about
| how open source can be applied to improving the quality and impact of civic
| discourse.
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http://opensource.org/node/366
IT Leaders Encouraged to Contribute Enterprise Code to Open-Source Projects
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| Open source is no longer a novelty, even within the largest corporations.
| Today, 53 percent of businesses use open-source software, according to a
| recent CIO.com survey. However, not enough of those businesses are
| contributing code back to the open-source community, said Jim Whitehurst,
| president and CEO of Red Hat, at the Red Hat Summit. And such contributions
| would benefit the enterprise even more than it would the development
| community, he explained.
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http://www.cio.com/article/405913/IT_Leaders_Encouraged_to_Contribute_Enterprise_Code_to_Open_Source_Projects
http://tinyurl.com/6378w4
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