[ad_1] A few weeks ago, I read Jim Whitehurst’s call to ban the one-hour meeting in the Time article 25 Daily Habits That Will Make You More Successful. Jim recommended making 30 minutes the default meeting length. I made this change myself last summer, when I saw my calendar filling up with more meetings than…

[ad_1] I just turned 13 years old, and I am in 7th grade at Rogers-Herr Middle School in Durham, North Carolina. I heard about the Kramden Institute from my dad, who is an avid volunteer there. Kramden is a non-profit organization that refurbishes computers to be awarded to underprivileged children who have been nominated by their teachers.…

[ad_1] Angie Nyakoon and Amanda Gbarmo Ndorbor are two outspoken and energetic women who oversee the Mental Health Unit at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) in Liberia. Together, they’re applying a new open source app called mHero (that was first used to help them deal with the Ebola crisis) to the mental health issues that have arisen in…

[ad_1] @Drew – I actually have a lot of detailed benchmarks available over on the cluster’s GitHub project Wiki: https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-dramble/wiki/Dramble-D8-Benc… The Pi 2 is respectable compared to a low-end PC or low-end cloud server; it is generally 20-30% slower in my testing than a micro AWS instance or a Digital Ocean droplet, but the performance…

[ad_1] Mike Gifford is the founder and president of OpenConcept Consulting Inc., which he started in 1999. Since then he has been active in developing and enhancing open-source content management systems to facilitate client control over their content. Passionate about building communities of collaboration, Mike and his team at OpenConcept have worked with several national…

[ad_1] Managing files is a constant task for users who want to maintain order and consistency. Locating, deleting, and moving files, or opening them in an application program is greatly simplified through the use of a file manager. This installment of my series on open source file managers covers Krusader. Krusader is an exceptional graphical…

[ad_1] One of the most difficult questions I get about open organizations comes from readers working at large companies with deep, rich histories. “I understand how you grew your culture at Red Hat,” they tell me, “and I understand how open source communities can function the way you describe, but I work in a place…

[ad_1] Every year, Opensource.com awards people from our community who have excelled in contributing and sharing stories about open source. These stories reflect how we use open source in our everyday lives as well as how it helps us to build a better world and future with technology. We like to celebrate our anniversary by thanking our commuity…

[ad_1] On January 20, Andreas Gal, former CTO of Mozilla, the company behind the popular open source browser Mozilla Firefox, announced in a blog post that former Mozilla CEO and Javascript founder Brendan Eich had launched a browser called Brave. “Brendan is back to save the web,” Andreas wrote, and I quickly went to the…

[ad_1] Last week one of the founding fathers of personal computing, Marvin Minsky, died at age 88. It so happened that I’d been reading about some of Minsky’s work at MIT in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy. Levy recounts how in 1961 Minsky encouraged and supported some of the first human encounters with real…