Development by Davis: Development by Davis: “Need a resume boost? Get involved with an open source project” plus 1 more

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Development by Davis: “Need a resume boost? Get involved with an open source project” plus 1 more

Need a resume boost? Get involved with an open source project

Posted: 17 May 2012 03:00 AM PDT

There are a lot of excellent reasons to get involved with an open source project. You can learn a new language, improve your existing skills, be challenged by a community that is at the top of their field or even get better at managing complex distributed projects. There are also dozens of ways to participate. Open up a project's bug tracker and find an issue that needs to be fixed. Write a useful new extension or plugin. Even if you don't code, just about every open source project out there could use more testing, more documentation and tutorials and help handling the load on their support forums and mailing lists. If you are a heavy user of open source software it feels great to give something back to the community that has contributed so much.

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Need cash? NLnet advances open source technology by funding new projects

Posted: 16 May 2012 07:30 AM PDT

Laying fundaments

In April 1982, exactly 30 years ago, the European Internet was launched by the Dutch researcher Teus Hagen, at a European Unix User Group conference in Paris. EUnet was the very first European Internet backbone. NLnet Foundation subsequently took the lead of this initiative, and not only helped shape the European Internet, but was fundamental in establishing the currently biggest Internet exchange on the planet, and also built out a market leadership. In September 1997, so 15 years ago, it was acquired by UUnet, now Verizon. All money was put in a fund with the sole purpose to make the Internet better.

In the second half of its life NLnet became one of the leading