David Chandek-Stark is a web applications developer, programmer, and systems integrator at Duke University Libraries. He prefers to code in Python and loves Django.
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Open Source: Giving Back
A primary purpose for this blog is to share with the larger community my personal insights, experiences, and some code from my life as a software developer and systems integrator in which I work mainly with open source software. Sure I use the mailing lists, asking (more often) and answering (less often) questions from users, and I submit bugs to the issue trackers, with tracebacks and relevant system info. I’ve submitted a few miscellaneous patches to various projects along the way, but that’s about the extent to which I contribute to open source software development. It leaves me feeling vaguely dissatisfied. I don’t know how much more of value I have to offer; I can only put it out there and let others judge, taking what they find useful, just as I have taken from many others.
–DCS
