Comments on: Contributing to Open-Source http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2007/02/14/contributing-to-open-source/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:58:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: vitor http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2007/02/14/contributing-to-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-1132 vitor Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:03:44 +0000 http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2007/02/14/how-to-contribute-to-open-source/#comment-1132 Hi Pedro. But that goes to the "open bugs and fix them if you know how" part :-) The second part was more intended to someone that doesn't know how the software works under the cover and has no knowledge to even look at config or input files. Those ideas were targeted to the basic user, that interacts with the application without knowing how it works. Off course this delimitation between developer non-developer tasks is always subjective. Thanks for stopping by :-) Hi Pedro.
But that goes to the “open bugs and fix them if you know how” part :-)
The second part was more intended to someone that doesn’t know how the software works under the cover and has no knowledge to even look at config or input files. Those ideas were targeted to the basic user, that interacts with the application without knowing how it works. Off course this delimitation between developer non-developer tasks is always subjective.
Thanks for stopping by :-)

]]> By: Pedro Ângelo http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2007/02/14/contributing-to-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-1130 Pedro Ângelo Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:33:55 +0000 http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2007/02/14/how-to-contribute-to-open-source/#comment-1130 Hello there, great post. Last year I gave two short talks about this subject to people interested in Free Software and your post neatly sums up what I told them about engaging the Free Software movement and entering the active community. I'd just add to the part on "what you can do if you are not a developer" a note on the fact that a lot of software nowadays is data driven and therefore easily modifiable by end-users with a little speck of the hacker spirit in them. I've seen cases of end users fixing bugs related to data driven parts of an application before the developers :) Hello there, great post.

Last year I gave two short talks about this subject to people interested in Free Software and your post neatly sums up what I told them about engaging the Free Software movement and entering the active community.

I’d just add to the part on “what you can do if you are not a developer” a note on the fact that a lot of software nowadays is data driven and therefore easily modifiable by end-users with a little speck of the hacker spirit in them. I’ve seen cases of end users fixing bugs related to data driven parts of an application before the developers :)

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