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[ad_1] Hello, open gaming fans! In this week’s edition, we take a look at emulators with Raspberry Pi, SteamOS 2.0, new games out for Linux, and more. Open gaming roundup for October 3 – 9, 2015 Emulators with Raspberry Pi  While perusing Electronics Weekly, I came across a top 10 Raspberry Pi project article that mentioned…

[ad_1] In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at an open source 3D printed bicycle, the Real-Time Linux collaborative project, Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages project, and more. Open source news roundup for October 3 – 9, 2015 3D print yourself a bicycle Soon you will be able to…

[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5 articles of the week, we highlight tips for tech writing, how to , the Rasperry Pi Sense HAT, a My Linux Story, and five open source desktop email clients that are alternatives to Outlook. Top 5 articles of the week 5. Stephen King’s practical advice for tech writers Chances…

[ad_1] Week 6 of the Open Organization book club is coming to an end, and yesterday’s Twitter chat was an awesome way to wrap it up. Making inclusive decisions through transparency and participation is one of my favorite topics (and practices), and we heard some great perspectives I’m excited to share. I opened the week…

[ad_1] Brandon Keepers is head of open source at GitHub. He believes open source is fundamental to build products. I caught up with Brandon prior to his talk at All Things Open about open source principles for better engineering teams. I asked him not only about the talk itself, but also about his work at…

[ad_1] As the 2015 CRASH Space Vice President and an alumna of the 2010 CRASH internship program, it’s fair to say that I come from a long line of donation box experts. CRASH Space is a 501(c)3 non-profit hackerspace in Los Angeles. Throughout the years, we’ve brought our members and our equipment to schools, outreach…

[ad_1] I think we’ve all read our fair share of reports about lessons learned and the challenges and opportunities for governments taking up open source software. Frankly, many of them seem a bit dry, and often repetitive. But one study I recently came across (that has not received much media coverage) stood out. Its predicate…

[ad_1] Mobile and web technologies still haven’t made the desktop obsolete, and despite some regular claims to the contrary, desktop clients don’t seem to be going away any time soon. And with good reason. For many, the preference for a native application (and corresponding native performance), easy offline use, vast array of plugins, and security…

[ad_1] As reported in an article on Opensource.com in May, the European Commission (EC) this spring released its Digital Single Market Strategy (DSM), which provides a broad framework for policy initiatives that are intended to spur the growth of the information and communications technology (ICT) industries in Europe and to encourage the better uptake of…