Hi everyone,
I am just writing there, hoping that is not spam, that I published the third edition of my free and open source book "Contribute to open source: the right way 3rd edition". Basically include my whole experience in the last 12 years in different communities, projects and roles. From the community manager to developer, localizer and so on as per international roles and national ones.
The purpose to write was to reply the people asking me how to start or how to improve that stuff.
You can download it from GitHub/Leanpub: https://daniele.tech/2022/09/contribute-to-open-source-the-right-way-3rd-edi...
I am open to feedback of course :-)
Hi Daniele,
Am Montag 05 September 2022 10:56:22 schrieb Daniele "Mte90" Scasciafratte:
I am just writing there, hoping that is not spam, that I published the third edition of my free and open source book "Contribute to open source: the right way 3rd edition".
it is cool that you put in the effort to share your insights and to help to teach more people doing software engineering in the Free Software world!
https://daniele.tech/2022/09/contribute-to-open-source-the-right-way-3rd-edi...
I am open to feedback of course :-)
Thus I flipped the pages to give you some feedback.
a) Found a reference to producingoss by Karl Fogel. Expected that, good! "Other Resources" would deserve its own section not in "Conclusion" I'd suggest.
b) The starting chapter "How to read this book" did not answer what it promissed. It it about "What you will find in this book" and "The motivation to write the book". Maybe rename it.
c) The next chapter is more like a personal story. Is it really necessary to understand the right way to contribute to Free Software Initiatives? My suggestion: give a clear hint to skip that section, unless being interested in a personal story.
d) Note that from looking at a certain piece of software its status of being "Open Source" or "Free Software" is the same. It is the motivation why use one of the two terms that differs. (Free Software is older and stressed the political and ethical aspects. Open Source is younger and stresses the "practical" aspects more. Actually from your chapter about your philosphy I'd say using "Free Software" as term would be closer to your personal take. ;)
Hope that feedback is somewhat useful!
Regards Bernhard