Comment Open Source Projects (Score 2, Insightful) 128
I know that the open source community has given a lot to me. I have been able to tackle some difficult coding tasks by being able to reference works already done by some different open source iniatives.
I think the chicken-and-egg issue about the developers not having experience but needing it to get a job, is definitely something that if the developer could show they contributed meaningfully to an open source project would help there case trying to get a job. It looks good on the resume.
I decided to try and give back to the open source community, and released one of my products as open source now. I am looking for anyone that wants to work on it, or just enjoy using it.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pop3wizardnet/
I hope it helps someone save a few hours of headaches, considering it has weeks of work in it.