How to find a free software project that I can get involved in and contribute to? Not just some clique that will ignore my patches.

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Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 01:43:27 No.548143

How to find a free software project that I can get involved in and contribute to? Not just some clique that will ignore my patches.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 02:02:38 No.548150

fork projects to oblivion

> find permissive licensed software

> make your changes

> sublicense changes to GPL

Having permissive license is like inviting devs to eat up your work.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 02:25:31 No.548160

>>548143

I also am interested in this op.

I tried to contribute to debian and they have a page with pages and pages of links with more links - then when you ask them straight up "How do I contribute?" they just send you a link to another page that says learn how to program or they just ask you to donate money.

I want to know how to contribute IF I ALREADY KNOW HOW TO DEVELOP SOFTWARE. Knowing how to code doesn't automatically mean I know how to contribute to foss projects. There are people elements that need to be overcome that most coding autists are not so good at dealing with, and I also need to be connected to the correct people. But they (debian specifically) have nothing to offer here because they don't actually want more people involved, they just want more dollary-doos.

Look at the difference in the way ubuntu tries to get people involved versus debian. Ubuntu has a tool on their page that asks you what you want to do, you click through, find what you like, go directly to relevant information. Seriously I don't know why more projects don't make tools like this to make getting involved more straightforward - except that it's about the money and not about development.

https://community.ubuntu.com/contribute/find-a-task/#!/toplevel/communicate

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 03:15:11 No.548195

>>548160

>that need to be overcome that most coding autists are not so good at dealing with

skip that part. Rip the code you need, do your worst to it and then advertise it. Eventually it will get attention. That's how 3/4 of all 'new' things get in, because eventually they'll assimilate good ideas.

Just look at coreutils and other shit that has become part of linux distros. Most of it was a standalone project, some even as old as hitler himself.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 06:34:24 No.548263

Sticky.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 11:02:19 No.548338

>>548263

uneless

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 11:23:00 No.548345

>>548150

>eat up your work

I thought freetards didn't believe in the idea of intellectual property? Or is this just yet another case of Stallmanite doublethink?