Category: Blog

  • Want the best employees? Let them hire themselves

    [ad_1] In The Open Organization, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst defines an open organization as one that “engages participative communities both inside and out.” At Gratipay, we’ve pursued a similar vision, asking: Can we blur the line between inside and out? What if individuals in an organization could decide for themselves what level of engagement…

  • Roadmaps, reflections, and more OpenStack news

    [ad_1] Are you interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. OpenStack around the web There is a lot of interesting stuff being written about OpenStack. Here’s a sampling from some of our favorites: read more [ad_2]…

  • What is an open source program office? And why do you need one?

    [ad_1] The open source program office is an essential part of any modern company with a reasonably ambitious plan to influence various sectors of software ecosystems. If a company wants to increase its influence, clarify its open source messaging, maximize the clout of its projects, or increase the efficiency of its product development, a multifaceted…

  • PittMesh routers are owned by individuals

    [ad_1] We live in a society where large corporations essentially own two of the major ways we communicate: telephone (mobile and landlines) and the Internet (email, chat, etc). While paying for services to correspond with others over long distances might make sense, modern technology gives us better and more affordable options for communicating with those close to…

  • What can you do with open data?

    [ad_1] Play a word association game and the word “open” will almost surely be followed by “source.” And open source is certainly an important force for preserving user freedoms and access to computing. However, code isn’t the only form of openness that’s important. Open data Open data has been discussed for at least a decade.…

  • Shadow Tactics for Linux, Shadwen release date, and more open gaming news

    [ad_1] Hello, open gaming fans! In this week’s edition, we take a look at Shadow Tactics for Linux, Shadwen release date, and new games out for Linux. Open gaming roundup for April 30 – May 6, 2016 Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun coming to Linux Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a real time…

  • 6 higher ed schools teach open source, Collaboration Summit remarks, and more news

    [ad_1] In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at six higher education instructors who are immersing students in open source communities and projects, the co-founder and principal analyst at RedMonk Stephen O’Grady’s remarks on the future of open source at the Collaboration Summit in March, and more news. Open source news roundup for May 1…

  • The Opensource.com preview for May

    [ad_1] The Opensource.com preview brings you highlights from last month, editorial announcements for coming months, and other tidbits. In April, we made print editions available of the 2015 Open Source Yearbook, in paperback and hardcover. On the editorial side, we published five series, launched a new column, and welcomed 17 new authors. Read about more of our April…

  • Top 10 and editor's picks: April 2016 review

    [ad_1] Opensource.com brought in 840,459 page views in April, giving us our second highest traffic month ever. We announced our first Open Source Yearbook print editions, which are available on Lulu. We published 97 articles and 5 series: read more [ad_2] Source link

  • Top 5: My Linux Story from Uganda, Astro Pi flight case, DuckDuckGo's Instant Answers, and more

    [ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, we highlight a Linux story about becoming a full stack engineer, how to make a Astro Pi flight case, DuckDuckGo on Instant Answers as they compete with search giants, an interview with a DrupalCon speaker about Arduino prototyping, and an interview with a user interface engineer prior to his talk at OSCON 2016. Top…