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Jetpack Add-On to Predict Likelihood of Bug Fix in Bugzilla, Crowdsourcing Flamy Firefox Bugreports, and Crowdsurfing Mozilla Developers Handles. Check out [http://network-labs.org/2009/10/links-for-fsoss-2009-conference-attendees/ Diederik's blog] on these tools.
==View's on Open Source, Conclusion==
Both Dru's and Diederik's views on Open Source were positive. Dru talked about using the community in order to get noticed and also helping your fellow writer's get noticed. Diederik talked about using the communities' knowledge to help with fixing bugs and also getting new comers through the learning curve. Both speakers recognize the potential gold mine (the community).
While listening to the presentations, I realized that the Open Source community is filled with people that want to learn and want to teach. It kind of hard to imagine that people actually get paid for doing Open Source stuff, especially since it seems like its it's their hobby. I've done full time work before and it's rarely something to be excited about, but all of these presenters were actually excited!
I guess passion and sharing are the major points I took away from this symposium.