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Motivation and Contributions in Open Source: Stop Romanticizing Unpaid Contributions

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

Does motivation matter? Open source contributors are increasingly people who are paid to work on open source. GNOME contributor Lucas Rocha asks how this impacts communities over the long term. This is not a new question by any stretch. People … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing the KDE Web Site

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

The KDE Project is taking a smart approach to reworking the KDE Website. Lydia Pintscher put out the call Sunday for contributors to pitch in with content and screenshots for one or more KDE programs by January 23rd. KDE apps … Continue reading →

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What Does a User Cost?

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Joe Brockmeier

Seth Godin has some advice to marketeers and businesses that open source proejcts should take to heart as well. Godin writes today about embracing the “lifetime value” of a customer. Open source projects may not have customers, but it pays … Continue reading →

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Providing useful feedback

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Joe Brockmeier

Release early, release often. That mantra has served open source really well because it provides an opportunity for developers to get in and provide feedback (and patches) through the lifecycle of a project, and not when something is completely finished … Continue reading →

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Should software reviewers be filing bugs?

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Joe Brockmeier

Before I joined Novell, I spent years writing software reviews — mostly, but not exclusively, about open source and free software projects. In that time, I ran into hundreds if not thousands of bugs. I might have filed 20 bugs … Continue reading →

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