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Forge Your Future with Open Source
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Forge Your Future with Open Source

by VM Brasseur
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 14m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Ways to Contribute

Throughout most of its history, when people have spoken about contributing to free and open source software, they’ve mostly meant making programming changes. This led many people to believe that contributions are all about the code, and non-coders are neither needed nor welcome.

Nothing could be further from the truth!

Free and open source software is…well…software, so naturally rather a lot of code is involved. But anyone who’s ever used software (all of you) realize that there’s more to a successful software project than simply the code behind it. There’s user interface and user experience design, and documentation as well. That documentation and user interface may require translation to other languages. All of this—code, ...

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