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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If you are looking for a way to contribute to an open source project, without knowing how to program or create graphics, OpenOffice.org needs people for triage. Triage is sorting out bug reports and in that way aiding in improving the project.
Never heard of OpenOffice.org? Is the software any good? Where do I go to begin my contribution to the project? Keep on reading for more details.
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There are many programming languages available today, and it’s not easy choosing what language to use as the first programming language you learn. What programming language are you using now? Which one did you begin with?
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SourceForge.net is a great place for those who are interested in Open Source projects. Here you can find many interesting projects and software. It’s a great place to look if you want a new project to work on, also if you are looking for people to your project you might find someone there. That’s one of the amazing things with open source, that so many can work together to create better software.
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