Microsoft made .NET Core and other .NET Foundation projects open to community collaboration. Want to make a contribution? Read these tips first.

Open source is looking more attractive to software development managers who need to make their budgets stretch farther, as the enterprise can benefit from FOSS community's contributions (which you ...

Contributing to open-source projects can give software developers an edge over other applicants in the competitive IT job market, say hiring professionals.

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Contributing to a well-known, widely-used project might get you more recognition than working on a smaller, lesser-known one.

The open source software industry thrived during the Great Recession, and experts expect similar dynamics during any downturns caused by the coronavirus crisis. For developers who find themselves with ...

Code commonly flows downstream, from an open-source project into an organization’s own products. Upstreaming is the process of reversing that flow—contributing code back to an open-source project.

Contributing to open-source projects can give software developers an edge over other applicants in the competitive IT job market, say hiring professionals. “The phrase we use is ‘code is the new ...

Contributing to open-source projects can give software developers an edge over other applicants in the competitive IT job market, say hiring professionals. “The phrase we use is ‘code is the new ...