Twitter Discloses Contribution to 29 Open Source Projects

February 24th, 2010 admin

1 Points It is not all take, take, take for twitter.


Originally posted on Twittown

 
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M4n1sh (Manish Sinha)  : GNOME stats enlightened me that the only way you can contribute is by writing code. Bug fixing, translations, money sponsorship don't count...
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pa1kumar (Pavan TechLabz)  : Nokia To Contribute Multimedia Adaptation Code -... http://www.pavihub.com/mobile/nokia-to-contribute-multimedia-adaptation-code/ #pavihub..
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lucasratmundo (Lucas Rocha)  : That doesn't mean we don't contribute to GNOME of course. We have contributed code to gjs, clutter, gobject introspection and others...
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