Beer Mug: contribute something small to an open-source project

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by dblock • 15 years ago

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RiderOfGiraffes3• 15 years ago

I guess I'm just getting old but I really didn't understand any of that, and certainly don't understand why it's on HN.

I haven't flagged it, because I now realise that I probably just don't "get it", but I really don't.

dblock5• 15 years ago

I encourage YOU to make a small contribution like this to any open-source project. Even if it's as silly as a favicon.

jonsmock• 15 years ago

I think it's the layout of your site plus the brevity of the post that confused everyone (including me). I couldn't distinguish what I was supposed to look at, what was image and what was post text, etc.

It's cool to celebrate "small" contributions to OS projects, because it will encourage more to do the same. But, I'd write up a bit more explaining that, especially for HN.

RiderOfGiraffes3• 15 years ago

And you know that I don't because ... ?

arst• 15 years ago

Maybe I'm missing something because I'm not tuned into the Rails community, but what is going on here? Someone submitted a favicon to an open source project, and now it's on Hacker News?

dblock5• 15 years ago

A few things happened.

First, the contributor didn't observe, but actually contributed something useful. In turn, that made the developer really excited about it. And finally this is a fun contribution. Open source win.

kovar• 15 years ago

And the only comment is on the site is:

"Posted to YC, vote up if you like: http://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Sounds like someone seeking karma.

dblock5• 15 years ago

Sorry, I didn't realize people see it like this. I'll remove. Update: removed. I really just want to tell a very simple open-source story.

jhite• 15 years ago

Hmm. I guess the "I don't have time to contribute to open source projects" excuse no longer holds any water!

Croaky• 15 years ago

Haha, as the author of that commit, I'm embarrassed to see it here. Maybe it's a story, though.

I heard about Heroku Bartender from http://devopsweekly.com

It pushed me to finally use a Linode slice for which I had a $60 credit from http://appsumo.com and play with Ubuntu, which is outside my typical skill set.

I had fun installing Ruby, git, Postgres, and https://github.com/defunkt/cijoe on that slice. While stuff was installing, I added the favicon to Heroku Bartender.

There's a lot of cool software and tools out there. Open source, DevOps Weekly, etc are awesome for learning and playing.

truthsayer• 15 years ago

newsworthy and I shall fork it.

Beer Mug: contribute something small to an open-source project

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