In an age when anyone over 45 seems to have a story about the end of local community and how "everyone used to leave their doors unlocked," community has never thrived so much in the Open Source world.

Although it is true that Open Source and Free Software fundamentally revolve around the rather technical and programming-oriented concept of freely available software, there is a phenomenal amount of diversity of contributions in the Open Source community.

We don't just have one huge blob of people called "the Open Source community," but instead thousands of smaller groups, each interested in a specific portion of the community – whether it's documentation, translations, local advocacy, mapping, testing, gaming, or indeed programming. Although each group focuses in on their particular area, the global network of groups fits together like a jigsaw puzzle to form the wider Open Source movement that we all know and love.

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