Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 -- Boston, Massachusetts.
Today, FooCorp announced a strategic alliance with OpenHatch to encourage wider adoption of free software and allow greater involvement with FooCorp developments.
"OpenHatch is a great way for free software projects to encourage new developers and raise awareness of ways people can join in and help out" said Matt Lee, chief paradigm officer of FooCorp.
"The aim of OpenHatch is to strengthen free software by making more people aware of how they can participate," explained Asheesh Laroia, co-founder and data seducer at OpenHatch. "On our website, prospective contributors can find easy-to-browse volunteer opportunities in hundreds of free software projects like GNU social, connect with prospective volunteers by placing a friendly "I want to help" button on their websites."
"People always ask us how they can start to get involved with Free Software projects, and Openhatch makes it easier than ever before to just join in." said Rob Myers, FooCorp's principal tactics executive.
About FooCorp
FooCorp is an record label experimenting in free culture publishing, creativity and art. Formed in 1997 by comedy writers, FooCorp has been publishing online for over a decade. In 2005, FooCorp began experimenting with free cultural works with the creation of the CNUK Media Foundation. In 2008, FooCorp began publishing records by free culture artists, and in 2009 spearheaded the development of Libre.fm, a platform to promote and discover new libre musicians. Since early 2010, FooCorp has been working with a team of free software developers and web standards activists to create GNU social, a culturally satisfying alternative to the privacy and autonomy destroying social silos from the likes of Facebook and MySpace.
About OpenHatch
OpenHatch provides tools that promote community and collaboration in free software. With OpenHatch you can search for volunteer opportunities and projects that might interest you, find potential mentors and collaborators in your neighborhood, and document your participation in free software. Naturally, OpenHatch's code is free software.
Today, FooCorp announced a strategic alliance with OpenHatch to encourage wider adoption of free software and allow greater involvement with FooCorp developments.
"OpenHatch is a great way for free software projects to encourage new developers and raise awareness of ways people can join in and help out" said Matt Lee, chief paradigm officer of FooCorp.
"The aim of OpenHatch is to strengthen free software by making more people aware of how they can participate," explained Asheesh Laroia, co-founder and data seducer at OpenHatch. "On our website, prospective contributors can find easy-to-browse volunteer opportunities in hundreds of free software projects like GNU social, connect with prospective volunteers by placing a friendly "I want to help" button on their websites."
"People always ask us how they can start to get involved with Free Software projects, and Openhatch makes it easier than ever before to just join in." said Rob Myers, FooCorp's principal tactics executive.
About FooCorp
FooCorp is an record label experimenting in free culture publishing, creativity and art. Formed in 1997 by comedy writers, FooCorp has been publishing online for over a decade. In 2005, FooCorp began experimenting with free cultural works with the creation of the CNUK Media Foundation. In 2008, FooCorp began publishing records by free culture artists, and in 2009 spearheaded the development of Libre.fm, a platform to promote and discover new libre musicians. Since early 2010, FooCorp has been working with a team of free software developers and web standards activists to create GNU social, a culturally satisfying alternative to the privacy and autonomy destroying social silos from the likes of Facebook and MySpace.
About OpenHatch
OpenHatch provides tools that promote community and collaboration in free software. With OpenHatch you can search for volunteer opportunities and projects that might interest you, find potential mentors and collaborators in your neighborhood, and document your participation in free software. Naturally, OpenHatch's code is free software.