[ad_1] In Japanese business discussions, one term appears again and again: “gemba.” Over many years living and working for Japanese companies, I’ve probably heard the phrase “gemba de kimeru” a million times. Basically, it means that issues must be solved and decided on the front-line, where the problems and/or opportunities are. Popular thinking holds that…

[ad_1] Ilan Rabinovitch is well-known to anyone who has done the conference circuit around Southern California. He’s a helpful and friendly guy who I met once at a BarCamp years ago and more than once encountered on IRC. I often ended up getting great tech tips from him by sheer proximity. Ilan is speaking at…

[ad_1] At OpenStack Summit this month in Austin, Colette Alexander will give a talk called Hunting for Purple Squirrels: Hiring OpenStack Contributors in the Wild. In this interview, she answers questions about her talk, and explains how major tech companies are like the Girl Scouts of the USA and how playing the cello helps her…

[ad_1] Imagine you’re a teacher in a school with limited resources. How can you give your students a world class education? Access to the Internet is key, but where can you look for the high-quality resources your students desperately need? How can you level the playing field for them? The use of open educational resources…

[ad_1] Are you interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. read more [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] One of the most commonly needed components of any enterprise application is a solid database, and the development community behind OpenStack is working hard to make sure working with databases in the open source cloud is an easy, reliable, and performant experience. Amrith Kumar of Tersora, Christopher Merz of NetApp, and Rob Young of Red Hat are giving a…

[ad_1] New contributors to OpenStack are welcome, but having a road map for navigating within this maturing, fast-paced open source community doesn’t hurt. At OpenStack Summit in Austin, Paul Belanger (Red Hat, Inc.), Elizabeth K. Joseph (HPE), and Christopher Aedo (IBM) will lead a session on OpenStack Infrastructure for Beginners. In this interview, they offer…

[ad_1] April is National Poetry Month in the United States and Canada. During April, individuals and institutions take part by reading, sharing, and writing poetry. You can find National Poetry Month events at your local library, your local bookstore, and at many other places. To give National Poetry Month an open source spin, in this article I’ll share three…

[ad_1] Hello open gamers! This week we will take a look at the new website for RetroPie, and it’s newest release, plus four new games coming out for Linux. Open gaming roundup for the week of April 11 – 15, 2016 RetroPie has a new home, and a new version RetroPie has a new home that makes the…

[ad_1] In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at easy installation of Arduino on Linux, MediPi open source health kit, O’Reilly Software Development Salary Survey results, and more. Open source news roundup for April  9 – 15, 2016 Easy installation of Arduino on Linux It’s nothing new that the…