8 Ways To Contribute To Open Source Project Without Being A Programmer. 1.
Report issues: Issues should be known by the maintainers of a project in order to fix them. It's important that whenever you find any issue, don't abandon using the project, instead report the problem. Project developers are mostly happy to receive issue reports. Write a good issue report investing substantial time. 2. You can join a mailing list as mailing list;s are the main medium of communication to track the development of a project. 3. An open source project's heart is in its code. 4. Documentation is very important but there is lack of the same often. 5. Open source projects have their own websites sometimes. 6. Developers of a project require feedback to see if their created software is actually useful or not. 7.
Several questions are raised about a project, try to answer them. Be My Eyes ~ Lend Your Eyes to the Blind. Rackspace finally goes all-OpenStack - Pure Play OpenStack. Rackspace is famously one of the creators of OpenStack, so people are sometimes surprised to find that not all of their systems run on the cloud platform — until now.
The hosting provider has let the last of its First Generation Server customers know that within 30 days, they’ll be on OpenStack, one way or the other. The non-OpenStack workloads come from Rackspace’s 2008 purchase of Slicehost, intended to help the company compete with Amazon. In 2011, Rackspace announced that it would shut down Slicehost and that that all Slidehost customers would be moved to the Next Generation cloud (read: OpenStack) within a year, but that process has been ongoing ever since.
Now Rackspace has begun notifying the last customers on the First Generation systems when their systems are eligible for migration. At that point they have 30 days to perform the migration, or at the end of that “self-migration window”, Rackspace will do it for them. Announcement - OpenZFS. Open Source Financing. Written on Monday, August 27, 2012 It still feels unreal in a way how much my life has changed around in the last seven years thanks to the Python community and the concept of Open Source in general.
I think I learned most of what I use on a day to day basis from talking to people in the community through IRC and I will always be in debt to many of them. That said: I would not bet my live on Open Source software. I help people on IRC on a daily basis as a form of repaying and I strongly believe that we need it and that we need more of it, but in my personal opinion there is a limit to it. Everybody needs a business model and I have not yet found one that would be compatible with doing Open Source libraries as a one man shop for a living. However that does not mean it cannot be done but it would need enablers. Without doubt you can have your company do open source development and be successful but there are very few companies that actually do that.
For the good of all of us: CERN launches open source hardware effort. Open source software is used extensively by CERN, the particle physics lab behind the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments.
In fact, the organization even maintains its very own Linux distribution—based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux—called Scientific Linux CERN. Inspired by the productivity of Linux development, a group of CERN engineers have decided to bring the advantages of the open source software development model to the world of hardware. CERN has launched a new community-centric effort called the Open Hardware Repository (OHR) with the aim of encouraging collaborative electronics design. CERN has also developed a new license, called the Open Hardware License (OHL), to govern the distribution of open hardware designs. "For us, the drive towards open hardware was largely motivated by well-intentioned envy of our colleagues who develop Linux device drivers," said CERN engineer and Open Hardware Repository founder Javier Serrano in a statement. The Open-Source Car. Besides a V6 as your engine, your car is very likely to soon be running Linux under the hood.
The Linux Foundation will be announcing today that Toyota is joining the Foundation. Some of you may be wondering, "What the heck is a car company doing joining the Linux Foundation? " The answer is easy. As the Foundation puts it, "A major shift is underway in the automotive industry. Car-makers are using new technologies to deliver on consumer expectations for the same connectivity in their cars as they've come to expect in their homes and offices. And, what's one of the most popular systems for dashboard computing, heads-up driving displays and IVI? It's not just Toyota though that's using Linux and open-source software in its cars. Other car companies, like Ford with its Sync program have played with open source.
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