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Get to know Tuleap for project management
[ad_1] Tuleap is a unique open source project management tool with great momentum right now, ever month they have one major release. It’s also been listed it in both the Top 5 open source project management tools in 2015 and the Top 11 project management tools for 2016. “Tuleap is a complete GPLv2 platform to host software projects.…
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How to get started contributing to Mozilla
[ad_1] The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. —Lao Tzu Open source participation offers a sea of benefits that can fine-tune and speed up your career in the tech, including but not limited to real-world technical experience and expanding your professional network. There are a lot of open source projects out there you…
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Be a force for good in your community
[ad_1] Passionate debate is among the hallmark traits of open source communities and open organizations. On our best days, these debates are energetic and constructive. They are heated, yet moderated with humor and goodwill. All parties remain focused on facts, on the shared purpose of collaborative problem-solving, and driving continuous improvement. And for many of…
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Do I need to provide access to source code under the AGPLv3 license?
[ad_1] About the author Jeffrey Robert Kaufman – Jeffrey R. Kaufman is an Open Source IP Attorney for Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions. Jeffrey also serves as an adjunct professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Previous to Red Hat, Jeffrey served as Patent Counsel at Qualcomm…
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10 reasons to use Cinnamon as your Linux desktop environment
[ad_1] About the author David Both – David Both is a Linux and Open Source advocate who resides in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has been in the IT industry for over forty years and taught OS/2 for IBM where he worked for over 20 years. While at IBM, he wrote the first training course for…
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How to gain confidence to participate in open source
[ad_1] As your brain develops, you learn about what you can and should do in the world, and what you can’t and shouldn’t. Your actions are influenced by surroundings and norms, and many times what keeps you from participating is a lack of self-confidence. Throughout our lives, we’ve been taught the “rules” in civil discourse…
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A behind the scenes look at Exercism for improving coding skills
[ad_1] In our recent article, we talked about Exercism, an open source project to help people level up in their programming skills with exercises for dozens of different programming languages. Practitioners complete each exercise and then receive feedback on their response, enabling them to learn from their peer group’s experience. Katrina Owen is the founder of Exercism, and I interviewed…
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What is your favorite Linux distribution?
[ad_1] Of all the many questions you might ask an open source enthusiast, none may evoke quite the passionate response as asking which distribution they prefer. People choose a distribution for many reasons, from look and feel to stability, from speed to how it runs on older machines, from the pace of updates to simply which…
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Why events matter and how to do them right
[ad_1] Marina Paych was a newcomer to open source software when she left a non-governmental organization for a new start in the IT sector—on her birthday, no less. But the real surprise turned out to be open source. Fast forward two years and this head of organizational development runs an entire department, complete with a promotional…
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5 resolutions to become a more open leader in 2017
[ad_1] I’m always looking for ways to help people understand the power of open. And this year, I’m even more committed to showing others how a culture of openness can reinvigorate an organization and generate new opportunities for innovation, whether in the area of software development or beyond. Here are five resolutions we can all…