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Posted by kdawson on Sunday May 16, 2010 @10:50PM from the foot-in-the-door dept.

markfreeman writes "The one burning need I have felt over the last year was to get involved with open source as a contributor. I have wanted to help with documentation, advocacy, and most of all, with programming. Here's the story of how I got started, thanks to openhatch.org (which calls itself 'an open source involvement engine') and how you can too."

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Re:easiest way to get involved (Score:3, Funny)

by fuzzyfuzzyfungus ( 1223518 ) writes: on Monday May 17, 2010 @12:12AM (#32233280) Journal

C'mon, man. My bug is, like, totally repeatable on my l33t overclocked box. Neither you nor the guy who wrote Memtest86 can code well enough to keep up with its incredible speed...

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Re:easiest way to get involved (Score:3, Funny)

by icebraining ( 1313345 ) writes: on Monday May 17, 2010 @04:01AM (#32234504) Homepage

Bug report #2323.
Summary: Button is misaligned.
Attachments: VirtualBox image of the system.

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