[ad_1] A post by Amanda McPherson, former CMO of the Linux Foundation, about her best interviewing tip got me thinking about an interview technique I was taught while on the GNOME board of directors many years ago: focus on behavior. In jobs related to product management, business development, sales, marketing, and communications, you have people who…

[ad_1] On the first day of March, we unveiled the 2015 Open Source Yearbook PDF. Download your free copy now, or you can visit the download page to read yearbook articles on our site. We also started our second week in our Careers in Open Source series, which includes advice on choosing a brand name…

[ad_1] There are two kinds of Linux users: the cautious and the adventurous. On one side is the user who almost reflexively tries out ever new option which hits the scene. They’ve tried handfuls of window managers, dozens of distributions, and every new desktop widget they can find. On the other side is the user…

[ad_1] There are two kinds of Linux users: the cautious and the adventurous. On one side is the user who almost reflexively tries out ever new option which hits the scene. They’ve tried handfuls of window managers, dozens of distributions, and every new desktop widget they can find. On the other side is the user…

[ad_1] In my recent article 4 open source tools for Linux system monitoring, I discussed interactive tools that can be helpful in solving system problems. I also mentioned the sar command and how it is different from interactive commands. The sar command is one of my favorites when it comes to resolving problems. It is…

[ad_1] At social media startup Buffer, a single leadership decision eliminated salary negotiation for new employees, preempted gender-based salary discrimination, and prompted a flood of job applications. The decision? Make all employee salaries transparent. “We set down transparency as a core value for the company,” CEO Joel Gascoigne said in 2014. “And then, once we’d done that,…

[ad_1] As a hiring manager of systems administrators (sys admins) for the past three years, I know the kind of candidates I’m looking for to join my open source team. My responsibility, of course, is to try to hire the best and brightest from around the world. The candidate’s responsibility is to tell me what they’ve done and how,…

[ad_1] Making a change to open source code can be a rush. Recently I was working on software to provide a console command-line interface for users to interact with the NodeJS API client for HPE’s Operations Orchestration product. I realized I needed to use a library someone else wrote to parse all the arguments and display a nice command usage output.…

[ad_1] The famous festival SXSW is coming up in March in Austin, Texas and will hold a special event called SX Create, focused on cool gadgets and hardware projects. If you have a badge, this event will be open to you—plus, it’s free and open to the public. How very open source of them. So,…

[ad_1] We’re pleased to announce that the 2015 Open Source Yearbook is now available for download (PDF). What is the Open Source Yearbook? The open source label was created back in 1998, not long after I got my start in tech publishing. Fast forward to late 2014, when I was thinking about how much open…