[ad_1] “Having an expensive camera and Photoshop doesn’t make you a professional photographer—not needing them does.” I’m not sure who the original source of that quote is, but I heard it from one of my professors in college. While most focused on the “expensive camera” part of that quote, I prefer to focus on the…

[ad_1] For many students in mathematics, physical sciences, engineering, economics, and other fields with a heavy numeric component, MATLAB is their first introduction to programming or scientific computing in general. It can be a good tool for learning, although in my experience many of the things that students and researchers alike use MATLAB for are…

[ad_1] In the previous two months, we’ve looked at Darktable and digiKam as open source photo management and editing suites. A third open source photographer’s suite, called LightZone, has been around since 2005 as a closed source application, but got open sourced when its parent company dissolved in 2011. As a result, LightZone is now…

[ad_1] When I joined The Hill Center in Durham, North Carolina, as Executive Director nearly two years ago, I realized immediately that I had joined a wonderful, successful, highly conventional education organization. Hill has been transforming students with learning differences into confident, independent learners for nearly 40 years, and many of the faculty and staff…

[ad_1] May was an action-packed month, with 105 articles published, including 31 OSCON interviews, articles, and reports; an open source and hardware series; and a DrupalCon series. We welcomed 21 new authors, and 64% of our content was contributed by members of the open source community. Our community moderators contributed 33 articles (31% of our…