Open Source: What’s Your Contribution?

Do you actively contribute to open source projects? What motivates you to contribute, and what are the benefits of participating in the open source community?

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[Ilias Papoutsidis]

I am contributing to translate from EN -> Greek, because I want to make easier the life of countrymen when they decide to enter the web development!
github.com/javascript-tutorial
github.com/Devographics

[adriens]

Since a few months now, I contribute to endoflife.date.

My very last contribution was to add ArgoCD:

[new-product] Add Argo CD #3337

adriens posted on Jul 30, 2023

❔ About

Argo CD is a very widely used solution around K8S, GitOPS : it makes it possible to deploy in a very comfortable way.

Declarative continuous deployment for Kubernetes.

It gains everyday in traction, so it deserves its page on endoflife.date 🦑

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Each time I use a new tool/middleware I try to add it to endoflie.date so anyone can interoperate with lifecycle management from api and many other cool tools.

Also, the core team is very cool and engaged.

More about this project below:

⌛ Manage EoLs like a boss with endoflife.date 🛑

adriens for opt-nc ・ Dec 14 '22

#showdev #security #api #opensource

[Artak Avetyan]

What motivates you to contribute

As an author of FOSS AREG engine, I contribute, because of passion. Cannot stop working on this young project 😬 Because it becomes more interesting, it gets more downloads and I have a clear idea how to create new businesses based on that (free and open source is part of the idea). Hope it will work 🙄

[Paul J. Lucas]

Do you actively contribute to open source projects?

Yes.

What motivates you to contribute ... ?

I enjoy doing it.

[W]hat are the benefits of participating in the open source community?

I don't think there is a single "open source community." I certainly don't think I participate in it. I write code that's open-source and put it out there. If somebody else finds it useful, that's nice, but I don't particularly care.

[Jani Giannoudis]

After years of development, I completed the open source project with a payroll engine.
github.com/Payroll-Engine/PayrollE...

The solution is a business-oriented framework with some new concepts:

• Case-driven data entry
• Automated testing of business logic
• Customization with low-code and no-code

There are 15 GutHub repositories in total, consisting of the backend server (REST API), a web application (Blazor) and an automation console.

All participation is welcome :-)

[BekahHW]

Last week, I contributed to a handful of the OpenSauced repos by added licenses. I recently finished up an issue for freeCodeCamp, which I wrote about here.

[Thomas Hansen]

About 10,000 commits (real commits) the last 5 years, over 100+ repositories. I've changed my GitHub email address 2 times the last 5 years, but if you sum up my contributions, I'm the by FAAAAR most active user on GitHub from the Island of Cyprus, 2 million people. Number 2 on the list have 50% of my commits. I think there are less than 20 people world wide with similar (real) commits - Ignoring bots ... 😊

Username: polterguy if you want to check 😁

[Ben Halpern The DEV Team]

I contribute consistently here:

forem / forem

For empowering community 🌱

[Alessandro Pischedda]

My last contribution was on fastapi-sso library in which I've added the Gitlab sso.

Anyway when I can I try to do some PR in various repository which I use in some of my personal projects.

[Joe Mainwaring]

Do you actively contribute to open source projects?

I have been contributing to the OSS community for ~ 10 years now

What motivates you to contribute, and what are the benefits of participating in the open source community?

A few different motivators contribute to my continued participation:

• If it's work related, providing feedback or submitting fixes to dependencies we use is self-serving. While I have had to fork projects to patch bugs as an interim solution, I much prefer those fixes living with the original source code so it's accessible by others and integrated with any other fixes/enhancements the developers deploy.
• Technology isn't just a career for me, it's a passion. I'm always tinkering with tech in my spare time, and exploring new projects/tools to evaluate their worthiness for use.
• Open source enables rapid technology growth by allowing us to avoid recreating every different cog needed to have a prod-ready project. Without OSS, there would be less of us in the industry.