Open source often happens via blog posts, with people using their blogs to write, discuss, debate, announce, plan, and learn. Consider some examples from the past week:* [https://code.flickr.net/2017/01/05/a-year-without-a-byte/ Flickr team blogging about how they reduced storage for images]* [http://techblog.netflix.com/2017/01/crafting-high-performance-tv-user.html Netflix blogging about its work building a TV interface with React]* [https://research.googleblog.com/2017/01/the-google-brain-team-looking-back-on.html Google's "Brain" team (AI research) blogging about the results of their work in 2016]* [http://pascaleggert.de/macpro.html Pascal Eggert blogging his conceptual redesign of the Mac Pro hardware]* [https://snyk.io/blog/mongodb-hack-and-secure-defaults/ Tim Kadlec blogging about the recent MongoDB security breach] Having your own blog will enable you to more easily join the global open source community. A blog gives you a voice, which you can use when and how you want.

You will have completed your lab when your blog post from Step 5 appears on the [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/~chris.tyler/planet/ CDOT Planet site]. I will mark them as they appear there.