[ad_1] Recently I’ve had several conversations with open source friends and colleagues, each discussion touching upon—but not directly focused on—the subject of why a company would/should/could support a community around a project it has released as free/open source, or more generally to support the communities of F/LOSS projects on which they rely. After the third…

[ad_1] Most people working in open source communities understand the value the community brings to projects and organizations. But how do you show that ROI on a spreadsheet or pie chart? I provide an overview in How community building can help an organization’s bottom line. And I’ve collected this additional list of resources, which will…

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[ad_1] Our Open Organization community gathered for another lively Twitter chat on Thursday, March 17. This time, we discussed “open organizations under the hood”—the nitty-gritty details of daily life in an open organization. Check out the highlights below Q1: Challenge: Describe an open organization in a single tweet. #OpenOrgChat A1 Information is shared easily, openly…

[ad_1] In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at open source news from Google and Microsoft, the US publishes a draft of new source code policy, and more. Open source news roundup for March 12 – 18, 2016 Google and Microsoft announce more open source Google announced this week they will…

[ad_1] Hello, open gaming fans! In this week’s edition, we take a look at Ink scripting language and Atomic Game Engine going open source, GameWorks SDK 3.1 released by NVIDIA, and new games out for Linux.  Open gaming roundup for March 12 – 18, 2016 Now open source: Ink scripting language, Atomic Game Engine Inkle studio, the…

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[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, we highlight… well, a lot of Raspberry Pi! Pi Day was on Monday this week, and we made it a week-long series, publishing a new Raspberry Pi project everyday. We also have an honorable mention this week because Jason van Gumster’s list of favorite FOSS-related podcasts also hit it…

[ad_1] The world of electronic music has traditionally been a fairly expensive venture, whether you’re paying for expensive hardware or software. Luckily, there are plenty of free apps and open source software to enable people to get creative on the devices that they mostly have anyway. But I wanted to see how far the famously…

[ad_1] Korora is Linux distribution that aims to make it easier to install and use for new Linux users, while still providing power-users with the tools and openness that they want. Originally, Korora was built on Gentoo, but in 2010, the team redid the whole thing as a Fedora Remix, with the goal of making…