My resolution is to actually contribute to some open source projects this year. For upwards of five years, I've been attending linux.conf.au and the Open Sourc

My resolution is to actually contribute to some open source projects this year. For upwards of five years, I've been attending linux.conf.au and the Open Source Developers Conference in Australia. Each time, I have a great time; discuss interesting things with interesting people; come home and check out a bunch of interesting repositories; and then... do nothing. But not this year! Aha! I left linux.conf.au four days ago. Since then, I've: - written up one bug report [0] - joined the discussion on another bug report [1] - patched a piece of software on github for the second bug report [2] - realised that somebody else has done essentially the same patch in essentially the same way :( [2] - created a web scraper [3] for my local council to scrape ~30,000 planning applications for [4] and asked for it to be included - added 12 sets of traffic lights to OpenStreetMap near a friends house [5] This feels great. I think I can safely say that this year is going to be different to the others. I'm quite aware that many of these are extremely minor, but they I hope that they get me over the line and get me contributing more regularly. I may be able to make a bit of a difference this time. Now... if I can just get around to going to the local hackerspace that for the last five years I've promised myself I'll attend... [0] https://tickets.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/browse/PA-444 https://tickets.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/browse/PA-444 [1] https://tickets.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/browse/OA-503 https://tickets.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/browse/OA-503 [2] https://github.com/mischat/shareNice/pull/18 https://github.com/mischat/shareNice/pull/18 [3] https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/shire_of_yarra_ranges_planning_applications/ https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/shire_of_yarra_ranges_plann... [4] http://www.planningalerts.org.au/ http://www.planningalerts.org.au/ [5] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/pserwylo/edits http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/pserwylo/edits