[ad_1] I started my open source work from Oregon, USA working on a project in the “Republic” of Texas. While that, at first glance, does not sound international in nature, I can assure you that Oregon and Texas might as well be different countries. I experienced both the joy and frustration of working with users…

[ad_1] In the early days of Linux it was possible to do high-quality audio recording, but it was often difficult to set up. Then Ubuntu Studio made it a lot easier. Back in 2000-2002, after studying B2B marketing, I started to work at an engineering office. Aside from marketing and sales stuff, I was in…

[ad_1] Whether you work remotely from across town or across the globe, collaboration tools are the key to getting things done with the rest of your team. Which tools are your favorite? Here are some of ours. read more [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] In the first article in my series on open source program offices, I took a deep dive into what an open source program office is and why your company might need one. Next I looked at how Google created a new kind of open source program office. In this article, I’ll explain a few…

[ad_1] Open source software and open data play key roles in implementing Chile’s long-term energy planning, identifying ways to get the maximum value from development, minimizing its impact, and requiring less development overall. Over the past two years, our company—in partnership with the Centro UC Cambio Global of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile—has been…

[ad_1] Human beings are inherently playful creatures. From birth, play has an important function in our lives—from skills acquisition, to competition and beyond. We continue this love affair with play throughout sports, video games, and even catching animated animals in Pokémon Go. Unsurprisingly, gamification—the process of applying game mechanics to different things—has become something of…

[ad_1] The power of partners is incalculable. Again and again, open source communities prove that to all of us at Red Hat. The more smart people you assemble as you undertake an important endeavor, the more effective, flexible, and innovative the solutions you’ll discover. And yet that’s not how the marketing business has traditionally worked.…

[ad_1] In a previous article, I looked at four web-based alternatives to Evernote. I realize, however, that not everyone wants or needs to have their notes available on the web. Many people just want to do everything locally on their computers. That’s not a problem since there are more than a few open source note…

[ad_1] Containers are a major trend in deploying applications in both public and private clouds. But what exactly are containers, why have they become a popular deployment mechanism, and how will you need to modify your application to optimize it for a containerized environment? What are containers? The technology behind containers has a long history…

[ad_1] Mass-scale collaboration in free and open source software has proven so successful the concept has expanded to free and open source hardware. A strong case can be made that the area of hardware with the most promise for an open source approach is appropriate technology (AT). Appropriate technology was first popularized by E. F. Schumacher…