[ad_1] I’d like to share my experiences with Free Software Melbourne, its free software workshop, and, more importantly, what has happened since then because it’s kinda cool—it’s not what I expected. I consider myself a beginner programmer. Most of the time I have no idea what I am doing and no idea what the documentation…

[ad_1] Cloud-native computing relies on ephemeral containers instead of pinned servers. Executing applications within ephemeral containers solves resource scarcity challenges, but also creates a dynamic environment that requires new practices and tooling. To address these concerns, Ian Lewis of Google is giving a talk at this month’s OpenStack Summit in Tokyo, Japan entitled “In a world…

[ad_1] In late September, I attended my first LibreOffice Conference in Aarhus, Denmark. There were 150 participants from more than 30 countries present, and it was an incredible experience. Though the conference didn’t officially start until September 23, my work started the day before at what we called the “Community Day.” After a general get…

[ad_1] Egle Sigler, Kavit Munshi, and Carol Barrett are organizers and active members of OpenStack’s Diversity Working Group. The OpenStack Foundation has a deep commitment to fostering the diversity and inclusivity of the OpenStack community. The foundation’s Board of Directors created the group to formulate, deliver, and monitor programs to help increase the diversity of…

[ad_1] Having lived and breathed computers and electronics since I first helped my dad run a card sorter at work as a child, I’ve never been afraid to try new things (or to break them). I’ve run every release of Windows except Vista over the years, but I had real fun with things like my…

[ad_1] Can one be “sold” on open source? Adelle Frank makes a case for that, claiming that she has not one but two favorite Linux distributions: Xubuntu and Lubuntu. She even used the latter to convert a family member from Windows XP, which should come as no surprise from someone who has CyanogenMod on her…

[ad_1] Imagine having a career at a company where you can bring your ideas to management or engage in discussions with the key developers and founders of the software with which you work. In many organizations with traditional hierarchies, being a newbie may mean you’ll be ignored in these circumstances or, at best, will receive…

[ad_1] Sam Aaron is a live coder who considers programming a performance. He created Sonic Pi, an open source live coding synthesizer that lets people use code to compose and perform in classical and contemporary styles ranging from canons to dubstep. By day, Aaron works as a research associate at the University of Cambridge. By…

[ad_1] A large amount of scientific research is published in scientific journals, and there has been a lot of debate around offering open access to these articles, along with the underlying data, software, and methods. There is a new journal that launched recently with the goal of going beyond traditional scientific publishing by encompassing all…

[ad_1] This July, the OpenStack community celebrated five years of open cloud collaboration. It’s now a global community of more than 500 organizations and 30,000 individual members across 166 countries. OpenStack has nearly four million lines of code and powers the clouds of some of world’s largest brands, including AT&T, Disney, PayPal, and Walmart. Open…