[ad_1] Zoe Landon describes herself as a front-end web developer, entrepreneur, and general oddball. When she’s not doing design and research for Marketo, she works on the music discovery project RCRDList, plays drums, and writes stories. Her first novel, The Latte Segment, was released in February. She knows a little something about words, which is…

[ad_1] What does open source software mean? When you are explaining it to someone else, how do you convey the value and essense of open source without reinventing it? There have been many hard won lessons in open source since the phrase was first coined in 1997, and we should not forget those lessons. To help with that, I’ve…

[ad_1] With 1,055,061 page views, Opensource.com set a new record in March and blew away our previous record of 823,899 page views set in January. Thank you to our amazing community of readers, contributors, and moderators for helping us reach this huge new milestone. Last month we also announced our first Open Source Yearbook download,…

[ad_1] Jess Portnoy is a prolific PHP developer and open source geek with lots of helpful data and web data on SourceForge and GitHub. I was vaguely familiar with Jess’s work from various tech talks that she’s given, which usually attracted my attention because of her affiliation with the web multimedia platform Kaltura. Her upcoming…

[ad_1] The person who has a big hand in building the MongoDB developer community over the past six years is Meghan Gill. She was the open source NoSQL database’s first marketing hire, and will be speaking at this year’s OSCON about creating and nurturing open source advocates. I caught up with her to ask about the challenges of overseeing the teams managing events,…

[ad_1] An important but often underestimated part of software development is testing. Testing is, by definition, challenging. If bugs were easy to find, they wouldn’t be there in the first place. A tester has to think outside the box to find the bugs that others have missed. In many cases, understanding the business domain of…

[ad_1] The conversation around “open” in higher education has been happening for some time—but as open source has become mainstream in the software industry the conversation in the educational space has exploded. From universities offering degree programs in open source software, to MOOCs from top tier colleges providing open enrollment courses, to universities around the…

[ad_1] At OSCON 2016 in Austin, Jessica Rose, developer relations at Dream Factory, will give a talk called Impostor syndrome and individual competence. In this interview, she explains the role the Dunning-Kruger effect plays in open source communities, and offers tips for managers to help them recognize when candidates under- or over-estimate their own skill…

[ad_1] From the beginning, Raspberry Pi has been all about education. The idea that a piece of hardware everyone could afford in the hands of students used to learn programming skills and to build things was at the heart of the Foundation’s mission to fix a problem in the education system in the UK. Soon…

[ad_1] At last year’s OSCON I was lucky enough to stumble across the ChickTech booth. I had heard of women in tech organizations before, but hadn’t heard of ChickTech. When I asked what they were about and if there was an Austin chapter, my life changed for the better. ChickTech is dedicated to introducing young…