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Contributing to Open Source: First Bug Fix


Hey amigos! Well if you reached here by googling 'Bug fix' or similar, or are following me:). This might help you get started with contributing to Open Source or bug fixing. First of all I tried contributing to Debian, as I was already packaging for Debian-Diaspora. But later I found Debian a bit difficult in … Continue reading Contributing to Open Source: First Bug Fix

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FOSSMeet ’14: A Speaker’s Dairy


Hola Amigos! Some of our mates missed the FOSSMeet @ NIT-C this year and wanted to know about the same. So here it goes from a Speaker's POV (that's me 🙂 talking on 'Contributing to GNOME-Music'): As usual everything happened at the last-minute. I was in Data Structure's lecture when they call me and tell that you have to … Continue reading FOSSMeet ’14: A Speaker’s Dairy

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Contributing to Mozilla: Building Firefox


All the coders out there, it's for some bug fixing. So let's take up Mozilla Organization and try to fix some bugs in Firefox Browser. Wouldn't it be awesome if we could contribute to our favorite browser and next time when we use it, we can be proud to say that this particular feature or … Continue reading Contributing to Mozilla: Building Firefox