Category: Blog

  • Diversity in open source highlights from 2015

    [ad_1] The pool of people participating in open source communities still lacks diversity, but the good news is that many people, projects, and organizations are working to improve it. I’ve collected a few highlights from 2015 efforts to increase diversity in open source communities. Which 2015 diversity in open source stories would you add to the…

  • Tips for contributors, a bioinformatics research cloud, 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

  • How many open source projects did you contribute to in 2015?

    [ad_1] Opensource.com is a place where we share stories about how people around the world are exploring an open source universe. See how the principles of open source software and the open source way are being applied to different disciplines including business, education, government, health, law, and life. Follow us on Twitter @opensourceway. [ad_2] Source link

  • New release of Unity 5.3, new games for Linux, and more open gaming news

    [ad_1] Hello, open gaming fans! In this week’s edition, we take a look at the new release of Unity 5.3, high performance gaming mahcine PINE64, new games for Linux, and more. Open gaming roundup for December 5 – 11, 2015 Unity 5.3 released, includes OpenGL 4.x Unity released version 5.3 of its development platform. This new release has lots of new features, but the…

  • Mozilla's content blocker, new JavaScript engine, and more open source news

    [ad_1] In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, Mozilla announces new content blocker and ends Firefox OS, the Edge browser’s JavaScript engine source released, and more. Open source news for your reading pleasure. December 6 – 11, 2015 Mozilla announces new content blocker and ends Firefox OS  The week brought some mixed news from…

  • Top 5: Music makers, GPLv3 in court, Raspberry Pi for students, and more

    [ad_1] In this week’s Top 5 articles of the week, we highlight open source tools for music makers, GPLv3 in court in Germany, Raspberry Pi projects for students, a review of PC-BSD, and a visually impaired man’s story as a Linux user. read more [ad_2] Source link

  • 3 open hardware projects for beginners

    [ad_1] I’m part of the Lunchbox Electronics team where we create innovative, new products with great imagination and passion for open source hardware. Our goal is to combine the art and engineering of an R&D Lab with playful products and projects. We believe that learning should be intuitive and fun. Looking back over the year, we listed three of our…

  • Affordable ways to hook kids on coding

    [ad_1] The holiday break and start of the new year are just around the corner, and this week’s “Hour of Code” can be a great time to get your kids involved in a creative new world of problem-solving. I’m talking about coding—computer programming—and, your kids are probably not too young to start learning. I began…

  • SSH into your Christmas tree with Raspberry Pi

    [ad_1] Earlier this year, I wrote an article about how to use the Raspberry Pi to create a music light show using an open source project called LightShowPi. My little Christmas tree light show was popular enough that I was invited to demo it for a group of middle school kids in North Carolina. Which…

  • Start something new because it's good for you

    [ad_1] Recently, I read Seth Godin’s book Poke the Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?. It’s a short book, but it’s filled with anecdotes about people who have “poked the box,” which is to say they have taken a risk. Godin uses the metaphor of a box to…