Nicole C. Baratta

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Nicole C. Baratta (Engard) is a Senior Content Strategist at Red Hat. She received her MLIS from Drexel University and her BA from Juniata College. Nicole volunteers as the Director of ChickTech Austin. Nicole is known for many different publications including her books “Library Mashups", "More Library Mashups", and "Practical Open Source Software for Libraries". Nicole can be reached at ncbaratta@gmail.com.

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"How do you put a price on the generous spirit of OpenSource?"

I love that quote!!

You're right, it does totally depend on the open source project, but trying to contribute (pay) doesn't cost anything but a little bit of time and it might end spectacularly. One thing I teach folks is that you have to evaluate the community around the open source software you're looking to use and decide if it's strong, open and responsive. In the case of the example I mention, Koha has an amazingly receptive community and awesome people using the software. So contributing in the form of bug reports, or time, or money will get you what you want.