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GNOME Launches ‘Coding Education Challenge’ With Up To $100K Prize

GNOME Foundation has partnered up with Endless to launch a new ‘Coding Education Challenge’ for budding programmers. The competition aims to encourage new projects that would offer innovative ideas to educators and students to promote coding around free/open-source software. Endless has issued $500,000 in funding to support the prizes. The prize money will be awarded […]

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Quality Of Code Doesn’t Matter Much In Open Source Contributions: Study

One can imagine that contributions to open source projects would be evaluated on the quality of code above anything else. However, researchers have found quite the opposite! In a paper titled, “Does Code Quality Affect Pull Request Acceptance?, submitted to “Information and Software Technology” journal; researchers tried to determine whether code quality issues such as […]

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