For a time I maintained the Polish translations for Darktable. I gave up when they started adding filters with highly mathematical names that I couldn't figure out. That said, this kind of work is tedious but satisfying.
Yes, but not by coding properly. A free monospace font, and some SVG illustrations on Wikipedia. I'm coding and releasing it under some free license, but it is just program stubs that my pupils work with.
I made my first contribution last week, I've wanted to contribute to open source since my college days didn't really find a good place to contribute where I could offer some value to people without disrupting the flow of development. I'm sympathetic to people who manage open source cause not everyone is understanding. After 4 years, I've found something I love to contribute to and I'm just chipping in a few days at a time.
I have been involved on projects around Linux since the early days. Heard about Linux on a BBS, to age myself a bit. Not as much now as I was then as I run a business, but still make contributions to several projects. The important thing to remember is that you do not have to know anything about coding or development to contribute. There are many ways, and I am not talking about just financial. Testing, documentation, or even just helping others.
The issue too is that small and one-man projects usually see no funding, something most of us - Linux or not - hate about regular free to use programs whose code however is closed. These closed source projects usually go the route via funding through banners on their website or freemium models, something relatively unheard of with FOSS. The bigger projects also ask for funding and support, in reality however, these are the ones backed by bigtech all the time that do require less care to something small that could actually still take off.
No idea, but if you ask such a question, you should give a quote or timestamp. I bet 99% of people who read your comment did not manually look for the timestamp where the host starts speaking. And why should they? If you have a question, you should invest the time to actually write down the full question. 🙂
Have you ever contributed to open source?
Only financially & as an evangelist
I was a member of CLIQ Colorado Linux Information Quest. Helped with 2 trade shows in Denver
For a time I maintained the Polish translations for Darktable. I gave up when they started adding filters with highly mathematical names that I couldn't figure out. That said, this kind of work is tedious but satisfying.
Are you kidding? I contribute € every year!
Yes, but not by coding properly. A free monospace font, and some SVG illustrations on Wikipedia. I'm coding and releasing it under some free license, but it is just program stubs that my pupils work with.
I made my first contribution last week, I've wanted to contribute to open source since my college days didn't really find a good place to contribute where I could offer some value to people without disrupting the flow of development. I'm sympathetic to people who manage open source cause not everyone is understanding. After 4 years, I've found something I love to contribute to and I'm just chipping in a few days at a time.
Love to hear it
I have been involved on projects around Linux since the early days. Heard about Linux on a BBS, to age myself a bit. Not as much now as I was then as I run a business, but still make contributions to several projects. The important thing to remember is that you do not have to know anything about coding or development to contribute. There are many ways, and I am not talking about just financial. Testing, documentation, or even just helping others.
Thanks for sharing the experience
The issue too is that small and one-man projects usually see no funding, something most of us - Linux or not - hate about regular free to use programs whose code however is closed. These closed source projects usually go the route via funding through banners on their website or freemium models, something relatively unheard of with FOSS.
The bigger projects also ask for funding and support, in reality however, these are the ones backed by bigtech all the time that do require less care to something small that could actually still take off.
amazing! thanks , thanks for your channel , motivated me to start using linux
Thanks for the video
From where is the phrase the host says at the beginning?
No idea, but if you ask such a question, you should give a quote or timestamp. I bet 99% of people who read your comment did not manually look for the timestamp where the host starts speaking. And why should they? If you have a question, you should invest the time to actually write down the full question. 🙂
first comment :D
You even beat mine :D
Only open source!
Open sourth everything!
Not worth it. Even to me who uses desktop Linux for two decades.
Isk mu h about him but god damn he has an annoyng face😂