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Preaching to the choir?

If you think that most HN readers contribute to open source regularly then yes. I have a feeling though that many don't, despite appearances. Really I'd like that blog post to be a gateway for devs to get involved. I'm from the .NET community where there's way too little contribution. If you give to open source projects, good for you! Now go and get your friends involved too.

I do not give back. This blog post is definitely helping to motivate me.

It's funny that I think I'm too bad at coding to give back, but a great way to get a lot better is to just try.

I'm going to find something fun I want to work on and just do it already.

Fixing a bug or adding a feature to a huge open source project an be fairly intimidating at first. I find it's the build systems, test styles, and so on that get me stuck and often where I give up.

But the first time I received a software update and my name was in the release notes as a feature contributor was quote exciting :)

I think FLOSS popularity is not at an all-time high around here.

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