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You are not good enough (for Open Source)

  • Nov 04, 2008
  • Joshua D. Drake

A segment of the talk I gave at NAU on why you should contribute to Open Source and why you think you can't. Original idea credited to Matt S. Trout.


Updated 11/05/08 from Matt Trout: the version he gave at YAPC-EU 2008
 
 

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