[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, we highlight the project management tool Redmine, advice from a tech recruiter, a new open standard called “federated sharing,” open source options to build a GUI framework, and how to avoid burnout in tech. Top 5 articles of the week 5. Building a bootstrapped business on open source This article is about the project management…

[ad_1] For decades now, open source software (and lately, hardware!) has been transforming the ways that we live and work. It is, in the opinion of Dana Lewis, high time that we start using open source to innovate to save lives and solve health problems. In her Day 2 OSCON keynote, Dana set out reminding…

[ad_1] Danese Cooper, head of open source for PayPal, spoke to during the Day 2 OSCON morning keynotes about the sustainability of open source, mixing in some of the history of open source as well as her own sage advice. She started on a high note. We have won! But this comes with some interesting challenges. We…

[ad_1] By 2009, developer Nick Sagona had, over time, built quite a few custom, hand-rolled content management solutions for his specific client needs. He realized that having a standard, modular platform for all these custom bits would be useful, and Phire CMS was born. Phire CMS version 1.0 was released on November 1, 2010. Last…

[ad_1] A new release, Mitaka, brings new features to the various projects that make up OpenStack. And while it’s exciting to take advantage of a six month release cycle to gain new features and fix issues, the rapid pace of development can make OpenStack difficult to keep up with, even for seasoned cloud professionals. Fortunately,…

[ad_1] “One of the most powerful tools you have as a leader is to be present.” Eric McNulty opened up the first day of Cultivate this year, the annual pre-conference event before OSCON, with this quote. First, he asked the audience to think about the whys. Why are we here? Why did we we decide to spend two days at Cultivate?…

[ad_1] There are many reasons why people switch to Linux: cost, stability, security, flexibility, and of course, the value that comes from being open source. Which of these reasons first led you to Linux? Regardless of what caused you to first make the switch, it’s exciting to be a part of a community that supports so…

[ad_1] Nicole C. Engard is the Vice President of Community Outreach at ByWater Solutions. She received her MLIS from Drexel University and her BA from Juniata College. Her primary role at ByWater Solutions is to educate librarians about open source software with a focus on the Koha ILS. In addition to her daily responsibilities, Nicole…

[ad_1] Bitnami cofounder and COO, Erica Brescia says hiring good engineers is difficult. One of the greatest challenges facing companies today is that the younger, less experienced engineers may be a better culture fit than engineers with more experience. Also, more experienced engineers may not apply at all because they are secure in their current jobs. To combat this problem, and…

[ad_1] There comes a time in the journey of most any programmer when they are ready to branch out past the basic examples and start to build a graphical interface to their program. In Python, the steps to get started with GUI programming are not terribly complex, but they do require the user to begin making…