What is Open Source?

What projects do these logos represent?
What do the projects do?

What do all of these projects have in common?

  • You can run them for any purpose
  • You can understand and change them
  • You can share copies of them
  • You can share your changed copies of them

These are called the "four freedoms".

What are some kinds of contributions can you make?

Documentation
User interface design
Code review
Logos and branding
Translation
Reproducing bugs
Quality assurance
Sysadmining
 Website management
Legal advice
User support
Publicity
Testing
Community management
Creating tutorials
... and, yes, coding.

Why contribute?

"Open source is important to me because it is a way to learn, to practice, and to share with others." - Angel "Java" Lopez

"The sense and strength of community is so powerful, that I couldn't have been happier to be a part of this movement, amazed and humbled by the craziest ideas and work that get shared. In simple words, it changed my life." - Soumith Chintala

"To me Open Source is a tool in the activist toolbox. It's how we can get things done without having to wait and ask permission, without having to build every. single. thing. we want before we can accomplish great things. We build on each other's work, we build up each other's work together." - Lukas Blakk

Read more here.