- Getting people to contribute https://disboard.org 19 comments opensource
- Season of KDE call for mentors is now open. Help people get started in contributing to Free Software. https://caiojcarvalho.wordpress.com/2020/09/10/call-for-mentors-and-admins-for-season-of-kde-2021/ 3 comments kde
- How people get started contributing to open-source? A few questions to Luca Barbato, contributor to Gentoo, MPlayer, Libav, VLC, cairo/pixman http://tomassetti.me/how-people-get-started-contributing-to-open-source-a-few-questions-to-luca-barbato-contributor-to-gentoo-mplayer-libav-vlc-cairopixman/ 6 comments linux
- During Season of KDE, people get started in contributing to Free Software. Check out the projects that brought together new members and veteran KDE mentors this year to make everybody's lives better. https://dot.kde.org/2022/05/03/season-kde-2022-conclusion 2 comments kde
- Many devs here on Reddit and on Slack were asking about open source projects they can contribute to. So I made a form for people who want to get notified about OSS contribution opportunities. (beginners are welcome) https://devchat.devolio.net/hellocode/ 80 comments learnprogramming
- Labour pledges to cut rail fares by a third | The party also wants to make train travel free for young people under the age of 16 - "If we really want to make the shifts that we need to get people from cars into public transport this is a major contribution to it." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50621621 8 comments worldnews
- Jeb Bush: Dad is 'strong as a goat' - "He's watching FOX, getting mad about people that attack me. I feel like I'm making a contribution to keep him strong." http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/07/politics/jeb-bush-george-h-w-bush-health/ 18 comments politics
- Kofi Kingston can't believe things The New Day gets paid for: "We’ll leave the arenas and people will be waiting to see WWE superstars on the way out, and then you’ll have the entire crowd just swiveling their hips and we’re like, ‘Man, this is our contribution to society.'” https://www.sescoops.com/news/kofi-kingston-moments-new-day/ 43 comments squaredcircle
- GitHub - zama-ai/bounty-program: An experimental program to encourage the FHE community to help move the space forward and get rewarded along the way, awarding more than €500,000 to people who contribute to making FHE better. https://github.com/zama-ai/bounty-program/ 2 comments crypto
- Why do people think protesting does anything? The protests in the 60s were "startling" because just having whites and blacks holding hands in public was newsworthy. There's nothing remarkable about protests today. Wouldn't it make more sense to devote resources to actually getting people to participate in local politics and changing things from the inside, or contribute to legal battles to change things through the courts (e.g. Thurgood Marshall) http://politics.reddit.com/info/2rhvw/comments 36 comments politics
- "Network consensus is not built on computing power but rather the faithful interpretation of a ruleset" ~ Blockstream co-founder Mark Friedenbach // "When did we get to the point of having people contributing to the reference implementation without even reading the bloody white paper?" ~ u/observerc https://www.weusecoins.com/mark-friedenbach/ 13 comments btc
- One in three young people say their mental health and wellbeing improved during COVID-19 lockdown measures, with potential contributing factors including feeling less lonely, avoiding bullying and getting more sleep and exercise, according to researchers. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/one-in-three-young-people-say-they-felt-happier-during-lockdown 820 comments science