[ad_1] In 2014, cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean decided to encourage contribution to open source software projects, so they sponsored Hacktoberfest. More than 500 participants completed the challenge by making at least 50 commits to projects. This year, DigitalOcean wanted to focus on improving projects. Partnering with GitHub, DigitalOcean offered free T-shirts to anyone who registered…

[ad_1] I hate telling the story of how I learned to program. In the third grade, a friend showed me a book he found in the school library on making small games in the BASIC programming language. I was obsessed with Nintendo and got hooked on the idea of creating my own video games. I…

[ad_1] Computer Science Education Week is December 7-13. To mark the occasion, we are launching a new series of Hello World videos covering the basics of computer science. The 10 episodes follow Unique ID, the highly intelligent robot host of The Hello World Program, on adventures exploring a range of topics, from binary to artificial…

[ad_1] Tom Haines is the director and co-founder of 3Dami, a nonprofit educational program in the UK that focuses on teaching 3D animation to teens with ages ranging from 14 to 18 years old. It’s a seven-day program in which students produce their own animated films from concept to final viewing. At the 2015 Blender…

[ad_1] LibreOffice is the best free office suite around, and as such has been adopted by all major Linux distributions. Although LibreOffice is already packed with features, it can be extended by using specific add-ons, called extensions. The main LibreOffice extensions website is extensions.libreoffice.org. Extensions are tools that can be added or removed independently from…

[ad_1] A couple of weeks ago, a Chief Digital Officer (CDO) of one of the largest mobile telecommunications companies in the world asked me how a large organization such as hers should think about organizing itself to maintain control over costs and risks while still giving their global organization the freedom to innovate. When it…

[ad_1] Last year, Kenton Varda and I ran a successful fundraising campaign that let us build Sandstorm. During the campaign, he published a treatise on how open source and indie software has proliferated on desktop and mobile, yet stagnated on the web because decentralized hosting has historically been so difficult. Non-technical users comprise most of…

[ad_1] Last year, Kenton Varda and I ran a successful fundraising campaign that let us build Sandstorm. During the campaign, he published a treatise on how open source and indie software has proliferated on desktop and mobile, yet stagnated on the web because decentralized hosting has historically been so difficult. Non-technical users comprise most of…

[ad_1] Kdenlive is one of those applications; you can use it daily for a year and wake up one morning only to realize that you still have only grazed the surface of all of its potential. That’s why it’s nice every once in a while to sit back and look over some of the lesser-used…

[ad_1] The Open Organization concludes with an invitation: “Join us on our journey by engaging in the discussion on Opensource.com,” Jim Whitehurst writes. “We look forward to hearing from you there.” Readers, managers, leaders, and thinkers from around the globe accepted that invitation. And for six months, we’ve gathered here to chat about, debate, extend,…