[ad_1] Sometimes, the fastest route to solving a problem isn’t necessarily the best route. That’s something I’ve learned while leading an open organization. Top-down organizations can certainly excel at achieving efficiency—and if efficiency is your ultimate goal, then constructing a hierarchy is a valid way to go. Quite often, a command-and-control-style structure can produce the…

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[ad_1] For the last three years, I have rounded up the most popular open source project management tools for Opensource.com readers. As there continues to be major reader interest in this area, I decided to take a look back at the tools we covered in 2014 and 2015, and give you updates on all of these projects.…

[ad_1] Do you know the American TV show Mr. Robot? It aired in June 2015, and at SxSW Interactive this year, a panel convened to talk about “Coding of Camera: Mr. Robot and Authenticity on TV.” The panel consisted of Sam Esmail, Rami Malek, and Christian Slater. I watch the show and am amazed at their realistic portrayal of programming, technology, open…

[ad_1] Looking for an open source alternative to Dreamweaver or another proprietary HTML/CSS editor? Let’s round up some of your options. Not all that many years ago, pretty much every webpage on the Internet was, at some level, designed painstakingly by hand. It was tough, and before CSS really took hold and became well supported…

[ad_1] Nearly five years ago, my team at GeorgiaGov Interactive began a journey to migrate our enterprise web platform (hosting over 50 state agency websites at the time) away from a self-hosted model with a proprietary content management system to Drupal 7 and a cloud hosted environment. We were the first state to make such…

[ad_1] Nearly five years ago, my team at GeorgiaGov Interactive began a journey to migrate our enterprise web platform (hosting over 50 state agency websites at the time) away from a self-hosted model with a proprietary content management system to Drupal 7 and a cloud hosted environment. We were the first state to make such…

[ad_1] In a 2013 survey, 11% of contributors to free and open source software identified as women. But perhaps the future looks brighter? We can answer this question by examining the participation of women in Google Summer of Code, a program that provides a stipend for post-secondary school students to contribute to open source software…

[ad_1] For some time now, I have been saying that the way we do business is broken. I guess I should say that our models for achieving success are no longer sustainable. In fact, we have outgrown our one-size-fits-all approach to business process, leadership, and structure. Something has to give … and it has. In…

[ad_1] IRC has long been Penn Manor School District’s high school sweetheart. My IT team was fond of our internal IRC server, but the tool never resonated with students and teachers. With modern social apps now commonplace, IRC simply doesn’t appeal to non-technical crowds accustomed to easy, feature-rich tools. So, we’ve experimented with chat alternatives…