Open Source Players Share Their Experiences in CC-BY-SA Book

Forty-two contributors from a variety of open source projects have shared their open source development experiences in a new book entitled "Open Advice". Each author has written a short piece based on their personal experience on what they wished they had known when they started out in open source. Not all of the authors are programmers – contributors also include those who have contributed to open source as, for example, designers, organisers and package maintainers.

The book, which is made available under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike) licence, was unveiled at this past weekend's FOSDEM conference. It is available in a printed edition from Lulu.com for $15.50 (£10.01) and should be available from Amazon shortly. Alternatively, it can be downloaded as a free PDF...