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Questions to Ask if Youâre Thinking of Getting Involved in Open Source
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| If you arenât a programmer and have no idea
| what else could possibly need to be done, here
| are a few ideas:
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| * Artists are needed for making themes and
| wallpapers for Linux distros and desktop
| environments like GNOME & KDE
| * Make little tiny icons for programmers
| to put on the buttons in their programs
| * Translating a program from English to
| whatever other language you speak
| * Writing documentation (no project is
| too-well-documented)
| * Tech support
| * Testing is a great way for early
| adopters to help out
| * Bug triaging
| * Packaging software for a Linux distro
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http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2010/04/19/questions-to-ask-if-youre-thinking-of-getting-involved-in-open-source/
Moral obligations of Free Software authors?
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| I enjoy writing software. I often write
| software to solve some sort of problem that
| Iâve had. Usually virtually any code I
| write winds up in my git repositories, on
| the theory that it might be useful to
| someone else. Some of the code that I think
| might really be useful to people gets even
| better treatment. OfflineIMAP, for
| instance, has a very comprehensive manpage,
| heavily commented example config file,
| wiki, mailing list, public bug tracker,
| etc. Most of these I did the majority of
| the work to create, but OfflineIMAP does
| occasionally receive code and documentation
| contributions from others.
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http://changelog.complete.org/archives/1463-moral-obligations-of-free-software-authors
Recent:
A Trip Through The Cathedral & The Bazaar
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| That parallel is why this ten year old book is
| still worth reading. The open source process
| is still creating magic, marshalling armies of
| creative people who work for nothing -- or
| rather, as C&D points out, for gains that are
| not material. The technical prowess of the
| OSS world is not in doubt: Linux, Firefox,
| Apache, and a host of other projects show that
| the bazaar can still out-code the cathedral.
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http://www.raiden.net/articles/a_trip_through_the_cathedral__the_bazaar/
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