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by sovande 4632 days ago
Does a few weekend projects on GitHub and blogging about it really count as "developing open source software"? Isn't this more like using the Open Source term to promote oneself? Compared to guys like Igor Sysoev churning away year after year working on nginx and _not_ using time to blog about it.
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>Does a few weekend projects on GitHub and blogging about it really count as "developing open source software"?

Yes.

Definitely. I spent a lot of time at looking at code for microcontroller projects, Arduinos, AVR, STM32. For some people with experience they may take a weekend or two, but for someone who learns by reading code it's the building blocks of your career and success(or future success in my case ;).
Any time you slap a open source license on some code and make it public you're doing open source. So yes.
imho if people are using your project you did good! and a lot of ppl are using iScroll.
I think it does, yes.