Lessons from a brief career in open source

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Opensource.com
Feb 11, 2017

In my experience, working in the open source community is something that happens as a result of something else. I worked in open source for a short time—in fact, the mission statement of the company I worked for included the words “open source.” But my path to that job was not direct and not as laser-focused as one might think.

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