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Ten things you can do to help open source

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 5 comments
ZDNet UK; By Peter Judge 		Mail this story
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Open source has at its heart a big idea, which some find uncomfortable and others find liberating: it's about collaboration. It's about getting involved. It's all about having lots of people working at making useful things: you pay with your time, and you get paid with the time of thousands of others. If you're happy just using open source, then no problem. But if you want to contribute, because you have a problem that nobody else is fixing — or simply because you want to do your bit in exchange — it can be difficult to know where to start. The following suggestions might just inspire you to join in.

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Comments (5)

obriendan ·
The link to the full story seems to be broken
stoneater ·
agree! bump! I want to help, I'm not a programmer, but I'm always game to be a guinea pig.
vainrveenr ·
Just received a pair of links to Peter Judge's story 'Ten things you can do to help open source' :

1. The original ZDNet UK piece from yesterday (11/28/07) at http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/features/0,1000002000,...

2. Today's Linux Today edition of the same, at http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-11-29-00...

Both links seem to be working fine at the time of this writing.

Sander_Marechal Story submitter ·
Bas copy/paste of the story URL on my part. I've fixed it.

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