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The Open Source Way ...

Hello all, a happy new year ! This is my first post of 2014 and am quite excited.

The past week was all open source than ever before in my life. I attended a workshop on Drupal which left me inspired to look at how the system worked and also importantly how Drupal was developed collaboratively.

So, when I was thinking of material for a nice little new year resolution, involving in open source development sprang up spontaneously in my mind.

Last week I spend some time reading through the pages of drupal.org meant for contributors and I felt thankful to have came across it at least now. If you are a social entrepreneur or just someone wanting to make this world a better place (I bet most of us feel this ...) I think there is lot to learn from how free software development communities like Drupal are successful in making such fine software but all of it with volunteered effort. Simply amazing.

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