Today, I made my first ever contribution to the open source software community! I’ve been a long-time user of Linux and I’ve come to like it so much that I don’t think I could ever go back to using a closed source software platform, such as Microsoft Windows.
Anyway, I’ve been eying the the open source community from a distance, wanting somehow to contribute back, and perhaps get involved with some interesting project. However, not having a whole lot of spare time on my hands and having limited programming skills, I haven’t quite gotten around to accomplish anything, until now.
Today, however, I finally made it happen. I ‘ve submitted some translations for an awesome open source media player. I feel quite proud of making this first step, and I am surprised how easy it was to get started. Just a quick on-line registration and then a few clicks later I was raving away doing translations. Hopefully I will be able to make further contributions now that I know how easy it is to get involved.