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Portrait: Michelle Bisson balances consulting with Joomla! volunteerism

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"I've always done the things that nobody else wanted to do," Michelle Bisson says, explaining how she became the only woman on the core team for the Joomla! content management system. "I say, 'Oh, that needs to be done? Okay, I'll do what I can.'" This outlook is responsible not only for making her one of the founders of the Joomla! project, but also for giving her an unusual degree of insight into how non-developers can contribute to free and open source software projects (FOSS).

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Comments (5)

tuxchick ·
Take that, snooty programmers! :) Seriously, this is a great illustration of how any software project needs more than coders to succeed, and how non-coders can make significant contributions.
thenixedreport ·
Like me. :P

*runs and hides*
helios ·
I studied Python just so developers would talk to me.

NOW this comes out. If that doesn't chap my Monads...

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tracyanne ·
Of course Ken, that's why I talk to you. But I'm not a Linux developer.. Sigh..
helios ·
But I'm not a Linux developer.. Sigh..

We all have some redeeming facets TA...it seems that we may have found one of yours.

Q: How many software developers does it take to get a date?

A: No one knows...the code's still in alpha.

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