Delivering value to your company and customers

Participating in open source projects can be extremely interesting and valuable for your career because it helps so much with building your reputation, knowledge, and skills. You should not forget that open source also brings amazing results for your company and customers. Once you are able to start doing this, you can start working on open source in your current job. As we said at the beginning of this chapter, many open source developers get paid to work on open source projects. The secret to doing that is bringing clear value to companies and customers. Next, we will explore a few things that you can do to make sure that the open source project you participate in brings value to your company and customers.

Solve problems faster by adopting open source solutions

A lot of times, companies spend huge effort building frameworks and libraries and solving particular problems. You can try to find an open source project or even a small...