Open Source Aid

Here is another big project you can participate in. You have probably heard about Wordpress. Wordpress is a content management system usually used for blogs. This site is one of many sites using Wordpress today. This is from Wordpress’ own introduction:

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.

How can you contribute to the huge open source project that is Wordpress?

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NetBeans claim that it is the only IDE (integrated development environment) you need. And it is open source! I was introduced to this tool by William at Williams Corner. He has used it for programming Java. I downloaded the current beta version (6.7 Beta), and will try to contribute by submitting bugs I might find during my use of NetBeans.

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