New Book Helps You Start Contributing To Open Source

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 4, 2012 @05:45AM from the sending-experience-downstream dept.

jrepin writes "This new book Open Advice is the answer to: 'What would you have liked to know when you started contributing?' 42 prominent free and open source software contributors give insights into the many different talents it takes to make a successful software project; coding, of course, but also design, translation, marketing and other skills. They are here to give you a head start if you are new. And if you have been contributing for a while already, they are here to give you some insight into other areas and projects."

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Shut up and patch/fork it yourself by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-04 07:01 · Score: -1, Flamebait

This is the most infamous advice in the open souce community. It may be flamebait but it is unfortunatley true. Thats why abusive open source projects can form. You know witch projects i'm on about, which leads to fragmentation, which is why 300+ Linux distros are fighting over 1% market share.