Florian Effenberger

One of the great gifts of being active in an open source community is the incredible amount of things you can learn from skilled talents around the world. Shared knowledge is the basis for every project’s success.

A good conference is like a concert. You plan months ahead, venue might be far away, hotels expensive and travel burdensome. When the first tune is heard, all stress is gone. To be a success, it needs both the stage performers and background technicians, even more the audience.

Open source communities are like popcorn when watching movies.

They might take a while to pop up, are sometimes salty and sometimes sweet, but both is tasty and it’s simply not the same without.

Contributing to an open source community can be like composing a song. There are several voices and instruments that need to be arranged on one sheet, resulting in a wonderful tune.

An apartment is just a physical place. It eventually becomes home when people breathe, love, discuss, argue, celebrate and share it. In the same way, an open source project eventually becomes a true community when its contributors fill it with passion and joy.

Open source communities can be like a dandelion.

If there are many seeds that gather around a common root, spread and share them, so they eventually will shine in a beautiful colour everywhere.