7 Big Reasons To Contribute To Opensource

Opensource tells us why we should contribute.

1. Career benefits: "I probably would not have gotten my most recent job if it had not been for my articles on Opensource.com."
2. Raise awareness: "The platform and publicity that is available through Opensource.com is extremely valuable."
3. Grow your network: "I met a lot of interesting people after that, boosted my blog stats immediately, and even got some business offers!"
4. Contribute back to open source communities: "Writing for Opensource.com has allowed me to give back to a community of users and developers from whom I have truly benefited for many years."
5. Receive free, professional editing services: "The team helps me, through feedback, on improving my writing skills."
6. We're loveable: "I love the Opensource.com team. I have known some of them for years and they are good people."
7. Writing for us is easy: "I couldn't have been more pleased with my writing experience."

https://opensource.com/how-submit-article

Why You’re Afraid To Write Your Book

Fears answered that could be blocking you from writing a book.

Thanks to Tucker Max's explanations, you might publish that long awaited book?

http://bookinabox.com/why-youre-afraid-to-write-your-book-and-how-to-beat-your-fear/

8 Nobel Prize Winning Authors Writing Tips

Getting writing tips from 

award winning authors 

is a God send. 

Now Novel website presents the tips.

http://www.nownovel.com/blog/writing-tips-from-authors-nobel/

50 Unique Landscape Photos

I could not believe what I read at Web Designer Depot's website. Read the info below.

"This awesome collection of unique, professional-grade photographs, has kindly been made available for WebdesignerDepot readers by DreamyPixel.The bundle contains 50 images, mostly of landscapes, all in hi-res JPG format. The images range in size from 4928 x 3264 pixels, to 7360 x 4912 pixels, making them big enough even for print work. The set is divided into several categories for easy access: Landscape, Nightscape, People in Landscape, Winter, and Spring.The images come with an extended license, meaning they can be used in personal and commercial projects, you can also use them in non-digital products that you sell, and even in digital products provided the original image can’t be extracted."

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2016/08/free-download-50-unique-landscape-photos/

7 Days Or Less, Write & Publish A Children's Book to Kindle

"This author wrote a #1 Amazon Bestselling children's book with his 8-year-old son (sitting on our bed in our pajamas). And guess what, you can do this too! Click on his link below to view full-length tutorial video on how easily children's books come together (and how profitable they can be!) - http://jjsnip.com/cbf-video "

  
https://youtu.be/esHlhZPVRsA

10 Common Misconceptions About The Public Domain

The article at Public Domain Sherpa seeks to clear up misconceptions about the public domain in the United States.

Here are the questions covered.

1. If a work is within the scope of most people’s general knowledge it’s in the public domain.
2. Anything I find on the Internet is in the public domain.
3. If a work doesn’t have a copyright notice on it, it’s in the public domain.
4. If a work has a copyright notice on it, it’s not in the public domain.
5. If I republish or repackage a public domain work, I can claim copyright in it.
6. Posting a video to YouTube puts it in the public domain.
7. Books that are out of print are in the public domain.
8. All US government works are in the public domain.
9. Statues and other art works on federal property are in the public domain.
10. If a work is in the public domain I don't need to get permission from anyone, no matter how I want to use it.

 

http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/10-misconceptions-about-the-public-domain.html

Free Landscape Photos

I came across an article at Design Instruct. Thanks to Jake Gube for sharing these wonderful free photos.

He wrote:

"Here’s a bunch of free landscape stock photos you can download and use for free.

The following images are from Unsplash, Gratisography, Pixabay and Little Visuals — sites that release or feature photos in the public domain. This means these landscape photos can be used commercially.

These landscape images can be used as wallpapers, website backgrounds, stock photos, etc."

Here is a preview of just two of the photos.

http://designinstruct.com/resource/free-landscape-photos/