{"id":990,"date":"2011-02-18T11:41:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T09:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/?p=990"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:19:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:19:34","slug":"contributing-to-the-open-source-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/contributing-to-the-open-source-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Contributing to the Open Source Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NeoSmart\/status\/36539809476386816\" rel=\"follow\">we tweeted<\/a> a promise to contribute more to the open source community. As a Research &amp; Development organization, there&#8217;s a lot of random code samples, small libraries, forks\/modifications of popular scripts, and more that&#8217;s just lying around, begging to be open sourced.<\/p>\n<p>While a lot of these may prove to have little to no value to anyone, given how easy it is to make things open source thanks to github, there&#8217;s no real drawback to throwing them out there for anyone that may benefit at some unknown point in the future.<\/p>\n<p>We have a couple of hundred miniature projects, test code samples, and other such content across a number of drives to sort through, and whenever we find something useful, this is our promise to the community to share it. To that end, we&#8217;ve set up a github repository at <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/neosmart\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/github.com\/neosmart<\/a> where we&#8217;ll be uploading the code, and from where you&#8217;re all more than welcome to check it out and contribute back.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Follow us <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neosmart\" rel=\"follow\">@neosmart<\/a> for notifications and info on new projects and libraries added to the github repo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago, we tweeted a promise to contribute more to the open source community. As a Research &amp; Development organization, there&#8217;s a lot of random code samples, small libraries, forks\/modifications of popular scripts, and more that&#8217;s just lying around, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/contributing-to-the-open-source-community\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[758,212,759,727,52],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-code","tag-development","tag-github","tag-neosmart","tag-open-source"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xDa-fY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2650,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}