Ask HN: Do you actively contribute to open source projects?

Sure:

http://www.welton.it/freesoftware/

And lots of little bits and pieces here and there.

I did reasonably significant work on the ModelJUnit project for several months, but these days I'm back to concentrating on my own crazy schemes.

http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~marku/mbt/modeljunit/

Define contribute? I tend to dabble in different things and contribute small patches for bug fixes, features etc. where I think it would be useful ;)

My friends call it Ninja Hacking.

I'm the Security Officer for the FreeBSD operating system... does that count? :-)

EDIT: I should add that this is one of the main reasons I got started in the field of online backups: There were lots of online backup solutions available, but I wasn't impressed with their security -- and due to being FreeBSD Security Officer, I tend to have sensitive information (e.g., about unannounced security vulnerabilities in OpenSSL/BIND/Sendmail/Apache/etc), making it absolutely essential that my backups be secure.

I've released a series of PHP scripts for personal (young) webmasters under the GPL if that counts.

I contribute to the Fedora Project's Infrastructure. Specifically the pkgdb: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb

I've also contributed extremely insignificant patches to django and turbogears.

I'm not a startup hacker though...

Yes, I actually just contributed my first patches for Rails this weekend (I think 3 or so got committed already) during the bugmash event. I definitely plan on making more contributions too.

I just submit bugs & crashes that happen on my Ubuntu system. Otherwise, I've been trying to contribute something to open source but in vain.

Work daily on, but then that is my job. :)

http://akvo.org/

I suppose somebody has to say it: No, I don't actively contribute to open source projects. No time, really.

No

yes, i'm an openbsd developer (though not contributing much these days).

i've contributed patches to a number of other small projects that i don't keep track of.

I work on GPLd code at work, but it is not distributed, so that doesn't really count.

We're the main contributors to http://dotcloud.org

Open-source system automation for the cloud.

I've contributed a few patches to unladen-swallow, but most of my time is spent contributing to Django (I'm the multi-db guy :P)

Yes, I work full time on https://launchpad.net/

I open-sourced our help ticket system: http://github.com/bigfolio/big-help/tree/master

And I'm releasing an open-source image archiving app soon.

I'll admit, I'd love to contribute to a larger open-source project but I feel intimidated at times. Sometimes I'm not sure I have anything to bring to the table for such projects ... considering the talent that already works on them.

Um, I open source my own projects at github.com/maryrosecook Does that count?

my one-man show: http://binaryage.com

I contributed a bit to Apertium (a machine translation system).

I wouldn't say I actively contribute. However, I do contribute when I need something done. For example, I need Spree (open source Rails e-commerce) to handle s3 downloads so I created and open sourced the s3 download extension. I needed attachment_fu (Rails attachment plugin) to use the GD library, so I forked and added that, which later got merged back in. I don't regularly spend a ton of time on open source stuff, but if I need it, I do it.

I just started up the iPhone ARKit. An Apache licensed Augmented Reality toolkit for the iPhone

I currently work on the Haiku project as a part of Haiku Code Drive. I wish to become a full time contributor once I'm done with the Code Drive.

Also, I might start writing a FOSS app of my own in the future. It's just an itch I want to scratch.

I can contribute to FOSS because I'm still in college. I guess people with jobs or startups might not have enough time for, um, "extra-curricular" activities.

I contribute actively to BRLCAD. Although I do get paid to do it.