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Relatedly, but not charity itself, I try to stimulate open source communities by issuing a periodical[0] with easy tasks for beginners to contribute. By getting
by goldfeld 4y ago
Relatedly, but not charity itself, I try to stimulate open source communities by issuing a periodical[0] with easy tasks for beginners to contribute. By getting new people into open source they can hopefully become long term vectors for good work.
0: https://generativereview.substack.com/p/tasks-open-source-emacs-ai-code-review-chatgpt https://generativereview.substack.com/p/tasks-open-source-em...
- mos_6502 4y agoVery cool, one of our community members does something similar with local technology events: https://www.globalnerdy.com/the-tampa-bay-tech-events-mailing-list/ https://www.globalnerdy.com/the-tampa-bay-tech-events-mailin...
- goldfeld 4y agoThanks, and very nice mailing list, I’m checking it out!
- cpeterso 4y agoMozilla tags some Firefox (and other Mozilla projects’) bug reports as “good first bug” and adds a mentor to the bug. Volunteer contributors can search these bugs by programming language or product area on https://codetribute.mozilla.org https://codetribute.mozilla.org Some volunteer contributors have become Mozilla employees (myself included :)
- goldfeld 4y agoVery interesting and congratulations for working in the field of ethical software!