Category: Blog

  • 5 free and open music-making tools

    [ad_1] In my last article, Configuring Linux for music recording and production, I covered the basics of configuring your Linux system for music making. This is an extention of that—five tools for getting started making music on Linux. As a music teacher, I promote free/libre/open software (and music and educational material too!) to my students. In some cases…

  • Attending technical conferences: What's the big deal?

    [ad_1] If you’ve never been to a technical conference, you might be tempted to think it’s the time out of the office and the free lunches that get people excited. Not that I’m opposed to a free lunch, but that’s not even remotely why technical conferences are amazing. In fact, sometimes the lunch food is…

  • Openclipart: A library of public domain images

    [ad_1] In the past five years, I’ve contributed more than 300 clip art graphics to Openclipart.org. There were some works I liked more than others, of course, but I believe sticking with it is important. All of the clip art on the site is public domain, so there are no rights reserved. And, you can…

  • Theater group finds success by acting like an open organization

    [ad_1] When Vali Forrister co-founded Actors Bridge Ensemble (ABE) in Nashville twenty years ago, she was a new graduate with a master’s degree and a passion for the kind of theater that she was seeing in the more cosmopolitan cities. “The kind of work that would never come to Nashville in the mid-90’s,” she said.…

  • Secret Lab: It's OK to abandon your project

    [ad_1] Secret Lab, or more specifically, Paris Buttfield-Addison and Jon Manning, introduced themselves at Linux.conf.au 2016 during their talk Open Data + Video Games = Win: “We write books and have made games for iconic Australia brands.” [Watch a video of the talk] Which is accurate. They also sometimes do things like make Pokemon-style games…

  • RSS Puppy: a lightweight, open source RSS reader

    [ad_1] At the BuzzFeed Open Lab, we’ve been thinking a lot about automated journalism. In particular, we’d like to build open source tools that can be used by newsrooms big and small to empower journalists instead of replace them. As a first small step in this direction, we’ve built a tool for monitoring RSS feeds…

  • Hacking the farm with low-cost, open source tool designs

    [ad_1] After starting his own farm in Missouri, Marcin Jakubowski quickly discovered it’s an expensive business. The tools he needed to start and maintain a sustainable farm didn’t exist, so he set out to design them himself. Marcin published a collection of his open source designs, called the Global Village Construction Set, to the Open…

  • Continued government adoption, StoryBoard task tracking, and more OpenStack news

    [ad_1] 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. read more [ad_2] Source link

  • Our Linux-powered robotic future, data overload and management, and more news

    [ad_1] In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the Linux powered robo-drones, open source software for data overload and data management, and more. Open source news roundup for February 7 – 12, 2016 Our Linux-powered robotic future Erle Robotics, which makes inexpensive components for DIY robotics projects and…

  • Release of Xcom 2, Elliot Quest, the Mesa graphics library, and more open gaming news

    [ad_1] Hello, open gaming fans! In this week’s edition we take a look at the release of Xcom 2, Elliot Quest, the Mesa graphics library, and more. Open gaming roundup for week for February 6 – 12, 2016 Frozen Synapse 2 announced The sequel to the popular Frozen Synapse, Frozen Synapse 2, was announced on…