Benefits of Working on Open Source

• Share code

• • Leverage existing code
  • Collaborate with other developers and groups more easily

• Improve the probability code is used by other people

• • Incorporation into OSS distributions, e.g. Ubuntu and Fedora
  • Porting to other architectures

• Gain experience

• • Work on something interesting
  • Work on projects larger than three man-months (one person for one semester)
  • Get feedback from other developers on code