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[{"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4396, "date_created": 1297458025.222775, "message": "I've put code online, and submitted a few patches, but I don't know if anyone's actually using any open source code I've written.", "group_id": 95, "id": 83356}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4396, "date_created": 1297458150.140897, "message": "Not that I'm a good open source maintainer (I'm terrible) but I think that's the way to do it, in general.", "group_id": 95, "id": 83374}, {"user_id": 4240, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4396, "date_created": 1297458848.206979, "message": "If you guys have advice - just let me know..", "group_id": 95, "id": 83475}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297458146.7018199, "user_id": 4935}, {"date_created": 1297458947.743613, "user_id": 12}, {"date_created": 1297467741.0438631, "user_id": 3531}], "topic_id": 4396, "date_created": 1297458125.7784159, "message": "@bat I just started blogging, putting stuff out there, and participating on the developer lists of projects that I was interested (Django, etc.)  Then as I got more proficient, I started creating projects related to Django, and open sourcing them on GitHub.", "group_id": 95, "id": 83370}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4396, "date_created": 1297458078.8967209, "message": "How do you create projects people will want to use, and make sure people know about it?", "group_id": 95, "id": 83368}, {"user_id": 4240, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4396, "date_created": 1297458707.1006701, "message": "i havent got involved yet.", "group_id": 95, "id": 83457}, {"user_id": 4240, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4396, "date_created": 1297458742.917542, "message": "i have been doing PHP for the past 6 yrs - now im wanting to help in Open Source development somewhere.", "group_id": 95, "id": 83462}, {"user_id": 4240, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4396, "date_created": 1297458779.305759, "message": "Just I doint know where to start or even the first step in helping in a php project.", "group_id": 95, "id": 83468}, {"user_id": 6439, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4396, "date_created": 1297459223.409972, "message": "I got started by being just a user (perl and mod_perl in my case) and started being involved in the mailing lists to get my own questions answered.  Then was answering questions for others, then helping write/edit the docs on the project.  And eventually code patches.  I think the easiest way to help and learn a particular project is to get involved in the documentation first, code second.", "group_id": 95, "id": 83572}, {"user_id": 4240, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4396, "date_created": 1297459733.725251, "message": "sounds like good advice. but for some reason - i have always joined lists but never participated in discussion. Ill have to get myself to engage the people.", "group_id": 95, "id": 83686}, {"user_id": 6310, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4396, "date_created": 1297461167.122669, "message": "I got really involved with open source a few years back when One Laptop Per Child was a thriving and innovating project, spawning communities all over the globe.", "group_id": 95, "id": 84102}]