[ad_1] The open source file sharing ecosystem accommodates a large variety of projects, each supplying their own solution, and each with a different approach. There are a lot of reasons to choose an open source solution rather than commercial solutions like Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, or OneDrive. These solutions offer to take away worries about managing your…

[ad_1] I’ve heard the term “impostor syndrome” tossed around a lot lately, and while I understand what it means in broad strokes, it wasn’t until Christina Keelan’s keynote at the Community Leadership Summit (CLS) this year that I began to gain a deeper understanding. “Impostor syndrome can be defined as a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist…

[ad_1] It was just a typical, mundane day at school, when I happened to bump into my friend, Sheng Liang, who asked me if I was interested in participating in a competition with his friend, Li Quan. Sheng Liang has an entrepreneurial and competitive mindset, someone we usually see busy with some sort of idea or…

[ad_1] Dr. Kyla McMullen spoke at OSCON’s morning keynote session today. She was the first African-American woman to graduate with a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. And it says a lot about tech’s lack of inclusiveness that this landmark achievement happened in 2012. These days she is Assistant Professor in…

[ad_1] In the opening OSCON keynote this morning, the founder of Docker, Solomon Hykes, gave us a fantastic birds-eye view of lessons learned from the “firehose” while building a successful open source project. He calls this process: Incremental Revolution. Hykes says, “The world needs the tools for mass innovation, tools that encapsulate the harder parts…

[ad_1] Back in 2009, our day-to-day life at Planio was writing software for clients. Client work is often fun, but there can also be a feeling that you’re stuck on a hamster wheel of endlessly churning through projects, always looking for new customers. We used Redmine, an open source project management tool built using the Ruby on…

[ad_1] Node-RED is a browser-based flow editor that lets users wire together hardware devices, APIs, and online services in new and interesting ways. Node-RED’s nodes are like npm packages, and you can get them the same way. And because Node-RED has a built-in text editor, you can make applications as complex as you like by…

[ad_1] I have goals that might seem familiar to you: improve my overall working conditions, set boundaries for myself, and arrive at some sort of balance between a reasonable stream of work vs. getting things done in a resource-constrained space. If these goals are true for you, keep reading. If not, is the company you…

[ad_1] For the last few years the Community Leadership Summit (CLS) has taken place the weekend before OSCON. I’ve never had the opportunity to attend before, but this year OSCON and CLS are in my hometown. Up first were keynotes from Tessa Mero of Cisco and Guy Martin of Autodesk. Tessa spoke about leading an open source…

[ad_1] People are pretty incredible. The open source community is a great example of this: hundreds and thousands of people passionate about building new things, collaborating together, and helping each other succeed. Good people deliver great results, time and time again. There is though, always going to be conflict. Sometimes people will disagree on ideas,…