Motivation for Contributing to Open Source?
Submitted by Keith Casey on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 04:00On my personal site last week, I talked about Contributing to Open Source projects in a variety of ways ranging from helping with documentation to writing code to just finding and talking about the tools you find useful.
I talked about it without considering a simple question that - luckily - Dennis Crane of Dr Explain asked:
Keith, why [do] you help and contribute [to] open source projects? What's your motivation?
It's a very good question and the answer should sound familiar to quite a few people...
How do you measure 'contribution'?
Submitted by Keith Casey on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 05:00In the past few weeks, I've been working fast and furious at getting web2project to our v1.0 milestone. As part of that effort, I track open issues, problematic modules, community feedback via the forums, death threats via all methods, and other related aspects. And somewhere along the way, it led me to ask a seemingly simple question:
How do you measure an individual's contribution?
So you answer:
