[ad_1] I like to be busy and have a lot of energy to be a part of leadership teams in open source communities, aside from my fulltime job as Developer Evangelist for Cisco in the DevNet. I’m a community leader and member of the PHP and the Joomla communities. I’ve been part of the Joomla organization since 2011 and…

[ad_1] Jason is passionate about using technology to make the world more open, from software development to bringing sunlight to local governments. He is particularly interested in data visualization/analysis, DIY/maker culture, simulations/modeling, geospatial technologies, and cloud computing, especially OpenStack. Follow him on Twitter or Google+. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The year was 1989. The city was Kampala, Uganda. In their infinite wisdom, my parents decided that instead of all the troublemaking I was getting into at home, they would send me off to my uncle’s office to learn how to use a computer. A few days later, I found myself on the 21st…

[ad_1] Jason is passionate about using technology to make the world more open, from software development to bringing sunlight to local governments. He is particularly interested in data visualization/analysis, DIY/maker culture, simulations/modeling, geospatial technologies, and cloud computing, especially OpenStack. Follow him on Twitter or Google+. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Hackathons are well-known as events where developers come together to quickly turn out a piece of software, often competing against each other. But what if they were also a place for learning? The Research Center for Open Digital Innovation at Purdue University is making that happen. The IronHacks series of hackathons is designed to…

[ad_1] In a recent article in Government Computer News, I looked at the challenge of reshaping federal IT with open source without go-it-alone government-off-the-shelf approaches to open source software. In that article, I noted that the growing use of open source software by governments has shifted from “whether to use” to “how to deploy.” The…

[ad_1] Both The Open Organization and The Open Organization Field Guide discuss ways new communication technologies are changing the nature of both work and management. I’ve seen these changes firsthand during my nearly three decades working for Japanese corporations. Over time, I’ve been able to classify and characterize some of the impacts these technologies—particularly new…

[ad_1] When most people think about science, they see beakers, test tubes, eye droppers, and microscopes. If you’re a member of the recent wave of citizen science—which is crowdsourcing data collection by amateur scientists—you might also think about sensors or smartphone-based data collection as part of your toolkit. But the basic scientific process is pretty…

[ad_1] Let’s a few minutes to talk—well, read and write—about one of my favorite parts of the creative process: concept development. You can call it brainstorming, spit-balling, daydreaming, pre-production, or even imagining. (Just don’t call it “ideation,” please. That word hurts my soul.) It doesn’t matter if your project is a painting, a feature film, or…

[ad_1] One of the presentations I’m most looking forward at this year’s OSCON is Jennifer Tong and Wilfred Gee‘s session, PANOPTES: Open source planet discovery. In recent years, astronomers have discovered many planets orbiting other stars. The PANOPTES project aims to put the science and tools necessary for this work in the hands of ordinary…