There are 6 articles tagged as "open source"

Bug triage, the paperwork of open source

on May 24, 2017. in Blablabla, Software. A 4 minute read.

Everyone loves contributing patches to open source projects, adding new features. Some even like to write documentation.

Contributing to open source projects has many benefits — you learn and you teach, you can make friends or find business partners, you might get a chance to travel. Even have a keynote at a conference, like Gary did.

Recording screencasts of OSS contributions

on April 19, 2017. in Blablabla, Programming. A 2 minute read.

I enjoy contributing to open source projects, and I learn a lot while doing it. When someone asks me for advice on how to improve as a programmer, I usually tell them to find an open source project that interests them, and start contributing.

Contributing to open source

on March 17, 2011. in Blablabla. A 2 minute read.

Often times people ask me why do I contribute to open source, why do I “waste money and time” on free stuff when I could easily do the same thing for money? Don’t have I enough of staring at the computer at work where, well, I do the same thing - hack on code? Ummm. No.

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Moblin, Linux for netbooks

on May 21, 2009. in Blablabla, Free time, Software. A 2 minute read.

Moblin got me curios and I wanted to test it out:

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about:license

on September 13, 2008. in Development, Software. A 4 minute read.

I don’t know about you, but I’m not really good with all the legal mumbojumbo. All these licenses and agreements, they sound to me like they are not written to be read by human beings. Not to mention a bunch of terms that sound similar, but are not at all. As a person who makes and uses all kind of software, I feel like I should know more about licenses; what can and what can not be done under a specific license.

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