[ad_1] At OSCON 2016 in Austin, Keila Banks will be giving a talk on The Automated Teen. Because Keila’s father, Phillip Banks, has been a long-time organizer and volunteer at SCaLE (Southern California Linux Expo), Keila has been a familiar face at that event over the years, and she started giving talks there when she…

[ad_1] A recent court case illustrates the importance of reading and understanding technical terms used in copyright licenses. In Drauglis v. Kappa Map Group, LLC, 2015 WL 4932305 (D.D.C. Aug. 8, 2015), the plaintiff, Art Drauglis, posted a picture from a photo sharing site under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA- 2.0 license. The plaintiff asserted that…

[ad_1] This year at the Percona Live Data Performance Conference, I’ll be discussing Tarantool. Tarantool is an open source Lua application server integrated with a database management system that incorporates the LuaJIT “Just In Time” compiler, Lua libraries for most common applications, and the Tarantool database server which is an established NoSQL database management system. My…

[ad_1] Open source software seems like a perfect fit for government IT projects. Developers can take advantage of existing code bases and, it’s hoped, mold that code to their needs quickly and at less cost than developing code from scratch. Over the last few years, governments in the U.S. and abroad have been more closely…

[ad_1] When Docker brought new life to Linux containers at the beginning of 2013, the technology quickly gained popularity among software developers. Today Docker has millions of container downloads, thousands of community contributors, and countless third party projects who are using it. What explains this extraordinary popularity?  There are many articles out there trying to answer that question, describing the Docker features…

[ad_1] Human beings are complicated animals. We are packed with ambitions, fears, desires, anxieties, and other nuggets of the human condition. Of course, the extent and manifestation of these different elements varies from person to person, across cultures, and in different environments. This makes building human systems—such as communities or companies—complicated. To some (typically bureaucrats),…

[ad_1] Whether you’re teaching a piece of software or a concept, facilitating a workshop to hack on a project or product, or even organizing a donor night for your local nonprofit, you will have to deal with multiple personality types. And anyone leading an open organization today knows that managing group and team dynamics is an…

[ad_1] Free and open source software advocates have courageously blazed a trail that is now being followed by those interested in open source for physical objects. It’s called free and open source hardware (FOSH), and we’re seeing an exponential rise in the number of free designs for hardware released under opensource licenses, Creative Commons licenses,or…

[ad_1] This year at the Percona Live Data Performance Conference I’ll be talking about MySQL. MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database, enabling the cost-effective delivery of reliable, high-performance and scalable web-based and embedded database applications, including all five of the top five websites. My interest in databases grew while working in banking…

[ad_1] Josh Matthews is a platform developer at Mozilla. He’s a programmer who writes Rust code and is active in the development of Firefox. His development experience has led him to enjoy mentoring new contributors in open source projects. Josh is going to be speaking at OSCON 2016 on the topic of Optimizing your project…