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Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by carloselhalabi »

Have you heard of Mozilla? http://mozilla.org

I'm a Mozillian myself and I can tell you I wouldn't have been one if the community wouldn't have showed me such a great and kind support since the first minute I decided to step in a introduce myself. Plus we breathe OSS and have multiple talents of every kind.

Mozilla works serving, promoting and protecting the Open Web, and provides the tools to do so by ourselves. Firefox is -mostly- a community effort, with translators, designers, and coders from all around the world.

If you decide to join, feel free to say Hi in the forums of the community: https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by dvanduzer »

eljimmy wrote: post #158
lispit wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess the flip side of "don't contribute to a project unless you are intrinsically interested in it" is "don't contribute to a project you aren't interested in unless you are capable of significantly helping it." Someone inexperienced but strongly interested in a project can be taught to be useful. And a knowledgeable resume-padder can very well spearhead useful changes. But if you are both uninterested in the proj…

Another interesting aspect is someone may not realize they're interested in a project until they've spent sometime in the code.

That's a great point. I wonder if anybody has curated a list of projects that are good for learning how to work on software. As opposed to perhaps a broader list of projects that are simply good communities.

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by wildmusings »

carloselhalabi wrote: post #161

Have you heard of Mozilla? http://mozilla.org I'm a Mozillian myself and I can tell you I wouldn't have been one if the community wouldn't have showed me such a great and kind support since the first minute I decided to step in a introduce myself. Plus we breathe OSS and have multiple talents of every kind. Mozilla works serving, promoting and protecting the Open Web, and provides the tools to do so by ourselves. Fir…

Just be careful if you don't share their political views. They just might go digging through everything you've ever said and every cause you've ever donated to and start a witch hunt. Even if you invented Javascript.

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by ausjke »

AdrianRossouw wrote: post #153
SwellJoe wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have always had a mixed experience, and I think I mostly agree with that blog post, for the most part. I know our most recent migration to Drupal 7 (still ongoing, about a year after I started working on it in my spare time; it's the most painful migration I've ever worked on, including migrations across CMS and languages...this particular site has been migrated from OpenACS->Joomla->Drupal 6, all of those jumps we…

after almost a decade building everything with Drupal, i realized that only one site (a community blogging site) really benefitted from it. From what I've seen of D8 it is going to be so different that it will almost certainly be cheaper to rewrite it in a simpler way (something like laravel for instance) than attempt the migration. For all but the most trivial sites, that is. *edit: Oh, and are you aware of backdrop…

Spent too many hours with drupal over the years and I will stick with it, D8 has similar interfaces with D7 though the framework is totally revamped.

I also failed to find a good alternative, tried many but always came back to Drupal

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by rwallace »

dvanduzer wrote: post #142
rwallace wrote: post #141

To answer the question asked: I've been on the LLVM mailing list for a few months now, and been highly impressed both by the technical quality of the project and by the competence and supportiveness of the people involved. To address a meta-question: I disagree with the people who claim that you shouldn't contribute to a project for any reason other than intrinsic interest in the product itself. Most people, after al…

meta-meta-discussion: The question implies an ordering on priorities: 1) kind 2) supportive 3) talented 4) effective Granted, the original poster may not have intended it quite that strongly, but it raises an important issue when evaluating open source projects.

Not necessarily. For example, OP might figure effectiveness is easy to judge from a quick Google search and it's the other things that benefit more from asking about personal experiences.

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by sandofsky »

wildmusings wrote: post #166
carloselhalabi wrote: post #161

Have you heard of Mozilla? http://mozilla.org I'm a Mozillian myself and I can tell you I wouldn't have been one if the community wouldn't have showed me such a great and kind support since the first minute I decided to step in a introduce myself. Plus we breathe OSS and have multiple talents of every kind. Mozilla works serving, promoting and protecting the Open Web, and provides the tools to do so by ourselves. Fir…

Just be careful if you don't share their political views. They just might go digging through everything you've ever said and every cause you've ever donated to and start a witch hunt. Even if you invented Javascript.

A litmus test of a great community is how they deal with people who are technically useful but socially reprehensible.
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