By helping with open-source blockchain projects, you're not only learning a new technology —you're joining a global movement that's founded on collaboration, transparency, and innovation.

Microsoft made .NET Core and other .NET Foundation projects open to community collaboration. Want to make a contribution? Read these tips first.

Contributing to open-source projects can give software developers an edge over other applicants in the competitive IT job market, say hiring professionals.

Contributing to open-source projects can give software developers an edge over other applicants in the competitive IT job market, say hiring professionals.

Contributing to a well-known, widely-used project might get you more recognition than working on a smaller, lesser-known one.

As Dan Woods wrote after chatting up our own Matt Asay and Joe Brockmeier, enterprises don't like contributing to projects run by other enterprises, even open source ones.

Experts say that contributing to open source software can be a smart investment in your career and help you learn new skills in between jobs ...

Code commonly flows downstream, from an open-source project into an organization’s own products. Upstreaming is the process of reversing that flow—contributing code back to an open-source project.