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What are the most commonly used or most interesting open-source packages and software?

I’d say the open source browser engines, Gecko (Firefox) and WebKit (Safari, Chrome, iOS, Android) are probably some of the most important and widely used pieces of open source code these days.

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6:45 pm / 5th February 2013 / opensource, programming, softwareengineering, quora, open-source

To become a better developer ? To read more OR to create/contribute to open source projects?

Contribute to an existing project, rather than starting one yourself. There are a bunch of benefits:

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9:58 am / 14th November 2012 / opensource, programming, softwareengineering, quora, open-source

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

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