On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:39:40PM -0800, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > I would say that contributing to someone else's project looks better > than starting your own (unless yours is one of the few that attracts > dozens of developers) since that says that not only are you > motivated to keep learning, but that the project leads thought your > code was good enough to merge.
Anybody can create a SourceForge project. Not everybody can get his
code in the Linux kernel. Employers who know something about OSS can
generally discern the relative value of your contribution. When I was
interviewing for my current job, the 30 lines of code that I got into
MPlayer meant more than the thousands of lines of code that I wrote
for my own pet OSS projects.
Pick a major project -- Mozilla, OpenOffice, etc. -- and get a cool
feature merged in. OpenOffice in particular has lots of low-hanging
fruit.
Mike
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