Beer Mug: contribute something small to an open-source project

[Croaky]

Haha, as the author of that commit, I'm embarrassed to see it here. Maybe it's a story, though.

I heard about Heroku Bartender from http://devopsweekly.com

It pushed me to finally use a Linode slice for which I had a $60 credit from http://appsumo.com and play with Ubuntu, which is outside my typical skill set.

I had fun installing Ruby, git, Postgres, and https://github.com/defunkt/cijoe on that slice. While stuff was installing, I added the favicon to Heroku Bartender.

There's a lot of cool software and tools out there. Open source, DevOps Weekly, etc are awesome for learning and playing.

[arst]

Maybe I'm missing something because I'm not tuned into the Rails community, but what is going on here? Someone submitted a favicon to an open source project, and now it's on Hacker News?

[dblock]

A few things happened.

First, the contributor didn't observe, but actually contributed something useful. In turn, that made the developer really excited about it. And finally this is a fun contribution. Open source win.

[RiderOfGiraffes]

I guess I'm just getting old but I really didn't understand any of that, and certainly don't understand why it's on HN.

I haven't flagged it, because I now realise that I probably just don't "get it", but I really don't.

[dblock]

I encourage YOU to make a small contribution like this to any open-source project. Even if it's as silly as a favicon.

[kovar]

And the only comment is on the site is:

"Posted to YC, vote up if you like: http://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Sounds like someone seeking karma.

[dblock]

Sorry, I didn't realize people see it like this. I'll remove. Update: removed. I really just want to tell a very simple open-source story.

[jhite]

Hmm. I guess the "I don't have time to contribute to open source projects" excuse no longer holds any water!

[truthsayer]

newsworthy and I shall fork it.