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Tectonic: Free Software Developers Do It to Learn New Skills

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“Most free and open source developers participate in FOSS
projects to learn and develop new skills, Rishab Ghosh of
Maastricht University, told the Idlelo2 conference in Kenya this
morning.

“Ghosh, FLOSS programme leader at the Maastricht Economic
Research Institute Innovation and Technology, said that in a recent
survey of 3000 free software developers it was found that 80% of
them said they participated in FOSS projects because they wanted to
learn and develop new skills. 70% of them cited wanting to share
knowledge and information as a reason to participate in developing
free software…”

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