[ad_1] Will your car be controlled by open source software one day? Ericsson Research is taking this question seriously, with the help of the open source Restlet Framework project, where a simple text message can turn on the air conditioning before you walk back to your car. “We chose Restlet Framework to implement our web…

[ad_1] This article provides an overview of free and open source software (FOSS) that may be of use to students and researchers in academia, based on my own experience in psychology studies. I use Ubuntu Linux, which is a FOSS operating system, but the software discussed in this article is multi-platform; in other words, it…

[ad_1] Are you a mentor? Or, maybe you’re someone who identifies as a bridge builder, just looking for the right opportunity to help someone out—because working in tech can, well, be hard sometimes. One of Mozilla’s senior engineering program managers, Larissa Brown Shapiro, wants to show us how mentoring in tech communities can be rewarding…

[ad_1] Business problems today are too big for any one person to solve. Agile teams are much more effective at solving problems than are lone geniuses. So why do we still reward the smartest people in the room more so than those who excel at working with others? You know who I’m talking about: the…

[ad_1] Where do the developers in my FOSS community live? For large open source communities where personal contact with developers is impossible, answering this simple question may be difficult. In some projects, developers have the option of registering personal geographical information such as a country or city of residence or GPS coordinates. For example, this…

[ad_1] I’m sitting in my living room listening to Thievery Corporation‘s Babylon Rewound on the home stereo. A lot of this glorious music is coming from the general vicinity of the speakers, but there is a significant part coming from hard to my left, about two meters to the left of the leftmost speaker. Really?…

[ad_1] If you attend LISA15 in Washington D.C. this month, you’ll want to catch James Mickens’ closing keynote, It Was Never Going to Work, So Let’s Have Some Tea. James Mickens has a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, and he is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Harvard.…

[ad_1] Interested in keeping track of what’s happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. In this special edition of our weekly OpenStack news, we round up the news and events from the Tokyo OpenStack Summit last week. Our roundup of the developers’ listserv…

[ad_1] Hello, open gaming fans! In this week’s edition, we take a look at a few Halloween favorites, the smallest C64 emulator ever made, 12 new games out for Linux, and more. Open gaming roundup for October 24 – 30, 2015 Memwa2: smallest C64 emulator Called Memwa2, Staringlizard introduced a new project on Kickstarter, for what…

[ad_1] In this week’s edition of the open source news roundup, we take a look at the European Commission funding a supercomputer, Google aiding refugees, Carnegie Mellon University printing arteries and hearts, and more. Open source news roundup for October 24 – 30, 2015 European Commission funds supercomputer to run a billion billion (10^18) operations…