[ad_1] In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the U.K. moving away from proprietary software, France voting to adopt more open source, a new version of BeagleBoard hitting the market for Christmas, and more news. Open source news roundup for October 17 – 23, 2015 U.K. takes…

[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, we highlight a Linux story, an open source story, open hardware with Sonic Pi, a wrapup of the LibreOffice Conference, and an intern’s idea goes global. read more [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] If you know a professional designer who is contributing time to an open source project, chances are they fall into one of these three categories, explained Garth Braithwaite, who spoke Monday at the All Things Open conference: 1) They were tricked into it or peer­ pressured by a friend who is also an open…

[ad_1] One of the world’s largest scientific organization is using OpenStack to understand what makes up everything in our universe. CERN runs one of the most collaborative scientific projects on Earth, responsible for producing enormous amounts of data on a routine basis to make Nobel prize winning discoveries such as the Higgs boson has some…

[ad_1] Tempest is the OpenStack official test suite. Its purpose is to run tests for OpenStack API validation in an OpenStack cluster, in order to know how healthy our cloud is. It is also used as a gate for validating commits into the OpenStack core projects—it will avoid breaking them while merging changes. For more…

[ad_1] One of my favorite things about the keynotes at All Things Open this year was that attendees didn’t have just one great speaker to listen to each morning—we had a few. I enjoyed hearing multiple stories and many insights from dynamic speakers all in one sitting. This article is a summary of two keynotes:…

[ad_1] Are you interested in using Docker to change the way you develop and package Linux application? You’re not alone. Docker, in a nutshell, is a low-overhead alternative to traditional virtualization. Rather than providing a truly virtualized environment all the way down to the hardware level, it provides a sandboxed environment for your application to run…

[ad_1] If you’re writing a web application from scratch, you’ll want to select a framework to make your life easier and reduce development time. Java, one of the most popular programming languages out there, offers plenty of options. Traditional Java applications, particularly web-facing apps, are built on top of a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework, which follows…

[ad_1] Because “cloud” means different things to different people, and because OpenStack tries to be all those things, individual OpenStack deployments can look very different from one another depending on many criteria. The “big tent” conversation, which has been ongoing in the OpenStack community for some time, strives to provide all of the answers for…

[ad_1] While I read Opensource.com article “Goodbye Henry Ford, hello open organization,” a line describing traditional organizational structures as “rigid and slow to adapt” with “silos and lack of communication” caught my eye. Those words could well describe the PK-12 education sector, where I spent many years. You see, public education is run by benevolent…