Open Source

Open Source Software is a about making source code publicly available, is a culture, is a community of practice, is a set of licenses deemed Open Source-compliant, and is how much Creative Commons software is licensed.

Tenets

1. Make the source code open (and publicly available)
2. Release Early, Release Often
3. Reward Contributions with Praise

Get Involved

Contribute

Contributions are the best way to get involved.

Types of Contributions

• documentation
• answer questions on chat
• answer questiosn on mailing list
• help edit and add to wiki
• submit language translation
• code

There are so many valid ways to contribute to open source beyond just code.

Start Your Own

NOTE: It is highly encouraged to contribute first to pre-existing infrastructure. Create new projects only as last resort if some project does not exist on the web and as part of Developer.

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Internal

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