Collaborate Through Open Source
The launch of open source - Wikipedia reference
In 1997, Eric S. Raymond published "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", a reflective analysis of the hacker community and free software principles. The paper received significant attention in early 1998 and was one factor in motivating Netscape Communications Corporation to release their popular Netscape Communicator Internet suite as free software.
Netscape's act prompted Raymond and others to look into how to bring free software principles and benefits to the commercial-software industry. They concluded that FSF's social activism was not appealing to companies like Netscape, and looked for a way to rebrand the free software movement to emphasize the business potential of the sharing of source code.
The label "open source" was adopted by some people in the free software movement at a strategy session held at Palo Alto, California, in reaction to Netscape's January 1998 announcement of a source code release for Navigator. The group of individuals at the session included Christine Peterson who suggested "open source", Todd Anderson, Larry Augustin, Jon Hall, Sam Ockman, Michael Tiemann, and Eric S. Raymond. Over the next week, Raymond and others worked on spreading the word. Linus Torvalds gave an all-important sanction the following day. Phil Hughes offered a pulpit in Linux Journal. Richard Stallman, pioneer of the free software movement, flirted with adopting the term, but changed his mind. Those people who adopted the term used the opportunity before the release of Navigator's source code to free themselves of the ideological and confrontational connotations of the term "free software". Netscape released its source code under the Netscape Public License and later under the Mozilla Public License.
Referenced Wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-source_software
Why open source is important
Open source licensing encourages innovation through collaboration. Without it, many of the technologies we take for granted today would never have developed, or would be locked away behind patent law. The open source movement is the reason that technology has developed at such a breakneck pace for the past few decades.
Why should you develop open source projects on the EyA platform?
At EyA, we have launched both an enterprise solution, but also see the good that open source projects can do for our world. As such, we are releasing an open source version of EyA, which will be capable of decentralising the public sections of the EyA stack.
We have already began the work of producing open source projects and invite the whole community to become involved. Whether it be developing a plugin for WordPress, or an entire application to fix a problem, EyA is here to stand with community developers for the good of our planet.
Of course, acting as part of a community is great fun and a really good way to learn new skills through collaboration.
There are other monetary benefits to open source too, much like large projects, even that of Corda, the DLT we developed EyA on.
How to become involved
If you are looking to collaborate with other developers, then a good place to visit is visit open source projects, where we are actively listing both our's, but also registered open source projects. You can also checkout our Github page here. It is also great to discuss projects and meet fellow open source trail blazers. You can sign up here.
Please do also read our contributor code of conduct before diving in.
If you are new to developing on EyA, please check out our learning resources here. We also recommend the postman API video series here.