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<h2>Non-CS Department Publicity Email</h2>
 
Send this to the mailing list maintainer or program director/assistant. Note that this is very similar to the above with a few small changes, all in the second paragraph. You can consult the [[list of open source projects by academic discipline]] to customize.
 
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You don’t need to be a programmer to contribute to open source, or to attend and enjoy our event. Most open source projects are also in need of designers, translators, documenters, bug-finders and testers. <br /><br />
 
Open source software -- software that is shared freely and available to build upon -- has become part of our daily lives. Popular applications like WordPress, Firefox, Adium, and Ubuntu have millions of users. In the field of <bru>department name</u>, people use and contribute to <bru>reference specific projects</u>. You can learn more about these projects, and start helping out with them, at our event.
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Open source began within computer science as a way to help computer users to have control over their computing environment; today compilers, entire languages, and libraries are available for you to use, modify, and share. This includes tools like Eclipse, GCC and LLVM, languages like Python and Java, and a multitude of web apps and development libraries.<br /><br />
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