[ad_1] Doing good for the world is often the nature of an open source software or hardware project. Offering code and schematics to others free of charge and with a license that allows for reuse and modification is often done to help others. Knowing this, I was still surprised to learn about an incredible project…

[ad_1] In open source software, if you contribute enough patches to the code base, most projects will make you a committer. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised then that when you write enough articles for Opensource.com, they give you your own column. In my case, that column will be called Open Founder, and I’m going…

[ad_1] In my last article, Configuring Linux for music recording and production, I covered the basics of configuring your Linux system for music making. This is an extention of that—five tools for getting started making music on Linux. As a music teacher, I promote free/libre/open software (and music and educational material too!) to my students. In some cases…

[ad_1] If you’ve never been to a technical conference, you might be tempted to think it’s the time out of the office and the free lunches that get people excited. Not that I’m opposed to a free lunch, but that’s not even remotely why technical conferences are amazing. In fact, sometimes the lunch food is…

[ad_1] In the past five years, I’ve contributed more than 300 clip art graphics to Openclipart.org. There were some works I liked more than others, of course, but I believe sticking with it is important. All of the clip art on the site is public domain, so there are no rights reserved. And, you can…

[ad_1] When Vali Forrister co-founded Actors Bridge Ensemble (ABE) in Nashville twenty years ago, she was a new graduate with a master’s degree and a passion for the kind of theater that she was seeing in the more cosmopolitan cities. “The kind of work that would never come to Nashville in the mid-90’s,” she said.…

[ad_1] Secret Lab, or more specifically, Paris Buttfield-Addison and Jon Manning, introduced themselves at Linux.conf.au 2016 during their talk Open Data + Video Games = Win: “We write books and have made games for iconic Australia brands.” [Watch a video of the talk] Which is accurate. They also sometimes do things like make Pokemon-style games…

[ad_1] At the BuzzFeed Open Lab, we’ve been thinking a lot about automated journalism. In particular, we’d like to build open source tools that can be used by newsrooms big and small to empower journalists instead of replace them. As a first small step in this direction, we’ve built a tool for monitoring RSS feeds…

[ad_1] After starting his own farm in Missouri, Marcin Jakubowski quickly discovered it’s an expensive business. The tools he needed to start and maintain a sustainable farm didn’t exist, so he set out to design them himself. Marcin published a collection of his open source designs, called the Global Village Construction Set, to the Open…

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