Introducing the Microsoft Open Source Club – Designed to help Open Source projects become successful
Microsoft has a long history of rivaling open source, a history that is now seeing the company increasingly warming up to the competitive technology and business model. An illustrative example in this context is the Microsoft Open Source Club, a project that made its debut on the software giant’s repository for open-source projects: CodePlex. According to the once anti-open source poster boy, the Club was launched as an effort to help drive CdePlex projects closer to success.
“The Open Source Club (OSC) is a group of volunteers who contribute what they can to the specified open source project each month. If you’ve ever wanted to contribute to an open source project, but didn’t know where to start or didn’t have much time, this is your chance,” Sara Ford, Microsoft program manager, said. “Even if you just spend 20 minutes just writing up a bug report, a “how-to” user guide, or a blog entry about the tool, it counts! It’s about making the most of the time you have right now to contribute.”
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