Open Advice Offers Guidance for New Open Source Contributors and the More Experienced

A new book sharing the perspectives of 42 open source contributors launched this month at FOSDEM. Open Advice, edited by Lydia Pintscher, shares what those successful people wish they'd known when they got started with open source software.

A new book sharing the perspectives of 42 open source contributors launched this month at FOSDEM. Open Advice, edited by Lydia Pintscher, shares what those successful people wish they'd known when they got started with open source software...

...The book addresses a wide range of topics, from the community-nurturing needs, like mentoring and recruitment, to code and infrastructure, to all of the non-code contributions, like documentation, art, and marketing.

If you're active in free software, the authors will include many names you recognize, like Evan Prodromou (founder of StatusNet and Identi.ca), Jono Bacon (Ubuntu Community Manager and author of The Art of community), Federico Mena Quintero (a GNOME founder and GIMP maintainer), and Selena Deckelmann (founder of Open Source Bridge)...