Open Source Benching

[SueEllen]

Open sores software is for hippies/communists.

I would not hire such a person.

[portseven]

Are there any particular ones you would recommend getting involved in?

Might be good to go for some of the more well known ones. I know Openoffice.org is crying out for help, also Ubuntu has a very active community, and is quite good at bringing people in.

You can also check out GNU Savannah, which has a good 'help wanted' section.

Pick a project that you are interested in and just get stuck in!

[NickNick]

Might be good to go for some of the more well known ones. I know Openoffice.org is crying out for help, also Ubuntu has a very active community, and is quite good at bringing people in.

Open Office needs all the help it can get at the moment in my opinion. Ubuntu however, is an excellent product. My business use it as standard on all it's machines.

;o)

NN

[portseven]

Open Office needs all the help it can get at the moment in my opinion

Aww, its not that bad

[NickNick]

Some of it is Good IMHO, but some of it (The powerpoint clone) is awful, just truly awful both on Windows and Ubuntu.

[NickFitz]

Also if you use Open Source tools it's always good to give back to the community, it doesn't have to be coding, documentation, sysadmin, helping out newbies, etc.

Agreed. I was hunted down at a conference and hired by Yahoo! as a direct consequence of my activity in the YUI community and several bug reports, with fixes, that I'd submitted.