In this semester, I had the opportunity to take
David Humphrey’s OSD600. In this course, I learned the culture of open source
community and how to involve in the development of an open source project. Open
source model becomes more and more popular. And a lot of companies have
open-sourced the software. Although, it’s been only three months since I
started learning open source development. The changes in the open source
community are large and obvious.
In this October, the 13th FSOSS
conference was held in Seneca@York campus. I participated as a volunteer. There
were more than 200 registered audience, nearly a hundred more than the number
in last year. From the number of FSOSS participants, we can see there are more
and more people interested in the open source.
Moreover, the biggest news in open source
community during last three month was that Microsoft announced that it made the
full .NET server core stack open source for cross-platform Nov. 12, 2014. Developers
can begin engaging with breadth of .NET open source project at Github. It uses MIT License, which is one of most popular license in open source
projects, instead of its own open source license in the dotnet project. That was the big step for Microsoft in the open
source community. It is also a big sign that open source is getting widely
recognized and adopted as an efficiency development model and in the software
development industry since Microsoft, the top company leads the development
model in the industry always, starts moving steps into the open source
community. It is anticipant that there will be more and more companies and
developers will participate the open source community.
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