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How to contribute code back to an Open Source project?

If you're following an Open Source project and would like to contribute code changes, what will you need to do?...

How to get involved in an open source project

What's the best way to get involved in an open source project? There are several projects I'd be interested in, and others I'd be happy to look into if just to keep my skills sharp in languages I don't currently use on a day to day basis. However, I'm not sure how to get started. ...

Is there anywhere that lists open source projects looking for contributors?

I'd be interested in contributing to an open source project, but don't have a clue where I could find a project thats looking for people. Is there a site that lists open ones and what they're looking for etc? I'd be particularily interested in java projects ...

How can I contribute to an open-source project?

I am a budding python developer, and although Im not bad, there are alot better programmers out there. For a long time I have wanted to improve my programming and 'real world' skills by contributing to an open source project, but most of them just don't seem to cater to those who are new to contributing to opensource projects. So my q...

Is there any opensource software (desktop or web-based) similar to Macromedia Contribute?

I'd like to be able to edit some static pages using a WYSIWYG editor, such as FCKEditor or TinyMCE. I was wondering if there's any software which can scan a list of webpages in a folder, and then allow certain tagged areas to be edited. Ideally a PHP-based solution would be best. Thanks. ...

What projects do you wish you could contribute to?

In my day to day activities I often find myself wishing I could go into the source code of something and change it so that it was more intuitive or to add a feature which would be easy to implement, but for some reason was never added. What are some projects you wish you could contribute to but haven't or can't? Highest on my list is m...

Open Source Sponsorship Schemes? (GSoC-like)

All of us know meanwhile about Google's Summer of Code, however I was wondering: are there any other/similar sponsorship schemes for open source software? Something that would allow for partial funding of ongoing development efforts? If so, under what conditions and pre-requisites? ...

Contribute CS4 - how to add custom css styles

Can someone explain how can I add custom font, css classes styles to Contribute? styles for h1, h2, h3, ul, ol, p, span, blockquote, etc The problem that I'm having is that when I go to edit the page, only header styles appear but none of the rest. How can I make all of the styles that I have on the css to appear to the WYSIWYG? Than...

How to get a foot into GNU developing?

Hi, I would like to start to contribute in some GNU software projects. Since some weeks I fancy with a specific project but I don't know how and when to start. I have the feel that you have to be firm with the following: A programming language gcc gdb make emacs the application itself patching CVS etc. So I'm trying to learn them a...

Are there any recent PHP Manuals, the CHMs with the user-contributed notes out there?

Are there any recent PHP Manuals, the CHMs with the user-contributed notes out there? The PHP guys seem to have 'dropped support' for them. Are some of them lurking around the PHP website itself, accessible by their unlinked URLs only? ...

End user editing of ASP.Net MVC view content with a tool like Adobe Contribute

Hi I have an MVC site that I would like to allow the owners to edit the content of the views in the style Adobe Contribute allows for traditional WebForms sites. Obviously due to the nature of routing in MVC, the URLs do not map to physical files on disk so this becomes a problem for a tool like contribute. Are there any other tools out...

Contributing to SubSonic

I've made some modifications to SubSonic 3.0 in order to allow it to run on .Net Compact Framework 3.5, as well as use more complex entity-table mapping and entity tracking (so it's more like Linq-to-SQL). I'd be interested in contributing these back to the project, but I don't find any documentation on how to contribute to the project, ...

Using Ant how can I verify that ant-contrib.jar is avaiable in the ant lib before doing a build?

Ant-Contrib is required for some parts of the build.xml so we first want to check if ant has the jar for it in its directory, and download and unpack it to the right directory if its not. Any thoughts to this end is helpful ...

how to start with blender coding?

Hey guys, i am very new to blender but i am very interested in not just using blender but also working on some projects on blender. i am a B.tech student, i am very good i c programming, knows python and opengl. is these enough to hand me an oppurtunity to work on the blender source code? Now, please help me as i am very new to this. i ...

Looking for ways to prevent users from contributing tasteless content.

Hello. For my upcoming social network site, I would like to stop participants from contributing tasteless content (text, pictures, videos, audio). I am devising a mechanism of moderation but I believe soon the amount of content being contributed will outgrow my teams capacity to proof-read. I am looking for ways to automatically handle t...

Open source Ruby projects - Where to begin?

Hi, I am fairly new to the programming world (about a year) and have done some development in Rails, Ruby, JavaScript in past one year. Over this period I've found out that it "really" gives me joy to program on challenging problems and now I would "really" like to give back to the open source community for all that I've got in past on...

Integrate Adobe Contribute with an ASP.NET Web application?

Hi, I have been searching about a good tutorial about integrating Adobe Contribute with a .Net but i haven t found anything. Could you give me some tips about how to do it? I guess there are some 'special' tags to insert into the aspx pages. but in practice how do i connect the two? Thanks ...

Should I send patch against 2-3-stable or master

I am trying to find a way to contribute back to rails. I was thinking I should validate if this patch https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/4154-expires_now-broken works or not. I was able to validate the problem. The problem still exists in 2.3.5 and in 2-3-stable branch of rails. I was not able to apply his patch at 2...

How do I contribute to the Android project on supporting/rendering non-English language ?

I have just started with Android development and bought a handset(HTC Hero) for test and usage purposes. The sad part is that it doesn't display one of the scripts (Devanagari to be precise). Hence, I would like to contribute to the Android project to help render it. However, since I have just started I have no ideas of where to look for...

How can I use a cloned copy of rails 3 to test with a new/existing app?

I want to implement a feature in rails but I'd like to test it with a rails application. If my (git) cloned copy is sitting in ~/home/username/code/rails then how can I create a new rails app that references that code instead of my installed rails gem? ...