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Items tagged webdevelopment, open-source in 2012

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How can a new developer get involved in open-source projects?

I was going to say the same thing. Find a useful project in GitHub (preferably one that clearly has an active maintainer), fork it, fix a bug (look at the project’s issue tracker) then make a pull request.

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4:14 pm / 14th February 2012 / opensource, softwareengineering, webdevelopment, quora, open-source

What are the pros and cons of open sourcing my website’s code?

I’m afraid if you’re expecting to open source your code as a magic bullet to get others to work on improving it for free you are likely to be disappointed.

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10:46 am / 20th January 2012 / webdevelopment, quora, open-source

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