The IBuildings techPortal has posted the latest episode in its podcast series of presentations from this year's Dutch PHP Conference. This time it's a talk from Matthew Weier O'Phinney on contributing to open source projects.

Working in isolation is easy. Most developers have long lists of tasks that never get shorter, and it’s trivially easy to put on blinders as you slog through the list. Good developers realize that the only way to get through the list is to start using the work of others [...] In this session, we’ll look at the various ways you can contribute to open source projects, and some common tools you can use to do so.

You can either listen via the in-page player or you can download the mp3 directly and check out this great session.