The Benefits of Open Source

November 1, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on The Benefits of Open Source

Apache developers started back in 2003 to develop an open source web search engine. After much work turning their vision into reality and many features such as capabilities for crawling the web and adding a web database for computing, storing and analyzing all web pages discovered, the project – named nutch – went in the Apache Incubator.

Computer World UK brought this to our attention in their article, “Shaping the future with participation.” Those developers learned that one of the greatest advantages in contributing to open source is the ability to collaborate with a diverse, enthusiastic community.

Working together in teams that can cross boundaries, both geographical and metaphorical, provides a chance to bring together the best talent in one area to solve a specific technical puzzle.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.