Giving Back

Many people use open source, but hardly give anything back. Sometimes I am really annoyed by some of the emails that I read over the mailing lists. People almost threaten to drop using the project if their problem is not solved immediately. This is very bad, you got to think how to give something back, rather than just taking everything for free. If you don't know how to, you got to learn how to give something back.

I have bloged on how to help Axis2/C project, but that applies to many open source projects in general. I have detailed, starting from simple ways to more advanced ways, on how to give something back to the open source project that you benefit from.

Comments

Unknown said…
Great list! Another simple thing users can do to spread the word is to simply social bookmark (delicious, digg, furl, and you name it..)what they read.