Aaron Bockover, the lead developer behind the open source Banshee project, has published an outline of the Banshee community's plans for the next major version of the program.
If most developers contribute to open-source projects because they want to, rather than because they're forced to, why do we have the GNU General Public License?
The uphill battle that open-source programs face to steal ground from proprietary software comes with added pitfalls in China, where problems like software piracy take away strengths that open source has elsewhere.
Last year, I was asked to help a political organization that needed to file its reports with the Federal Election Commission. I had previously helped them around their office where they run Ubuntu desktops and Debian servers, but I had never assisted with the reporting.