Microsoft made .NET Core and other .NET Foundation projects open to community collaboration. Want to make a contribution? Read these tips first.

Contributing to open-source projects can give software developers an edge over other applicants in the competitive IT job market, say hiring professionals.

Contributing to open-source projects can give software developers an edge over other applicants in the competitive IT job market, say hiring professionals.

Today’s open source landscape plays a critical role in the developer journey and in business as well. This piece examines common barriers to contribution, how businesses benefit from open source ...

Contributing to a well-known, widely-used project might get you more recognition than working on a smaller, lesser-known one.

Experts say that contributing to open source software can be a smart investment in your career and help you learn new skills in between jobs ...

Code commonly flows downstream, from an open-source project into an organization’s own products. Upstreaming is the process of reversing that flow—contributing code back to an open-source project.

As Dan Woods wrote after chatting up our own Matt Asay and Joe Brockmeier, enterprises don't like contributing to projects run by other enterprises, even open source ones.