[ad_1] Cory Doctorow is good with words. He just prefers stringing them into sentences, not subroutines. “I was a software developer,” he says. “I’m much better at writing science fiction novels. Like, seriously.” When Doctorow takes the stage at the 14th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 14x) this week, he’ll demonstrate exactly why he’s…

[ad_1] Chief Architect for the central US at Red Hat, Thomas Cameron, has been in the information technology industry since 1993, and has worked with industries ranging from high tech manufacturing, multinational financial services, information technology services, education, energy production, transportation, and large scale retail services. Prior to his two presentations at 14th annual Southern Californian Linux…

[ad_1] Contribute to open source! It’ll look great on your resume! It’s gratifying work! You may have heard people make these statements, or ones similar to them, numerous times throughout your career. They’re not wrong—contributing to open source is a rewarding endeavor in multiple dimensions—but, when software engineers advise other software engineers to contribute to open source they usually…

[ad_1] Carl Sagan once said, “We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” Katrina Hayes is clearly an exception to that—she uses her knowledge and skills to great effect to debug code. Katrina took time from her busy schedule prior to her…

[ad_1] So, you want to start using that open source thing… You’ve been reading Opensource.com and there’s a package that you’re excited about. You’d love to give it a try and maybe—just maybe—find a way to contribute to the community that made it (if, you know, it turns out as awesome as that article you…

[ad_1] Kubernetes and Docker are the latest buzz words in the IT sector. Businesses and IT enthusiasts alike are clamoring to learn more about containerization. I managed to grab Red Hat software analyst Jason Brooks, who will be speaking at SCaLE 14x about Kubernetes, to ask him a few questions about the software and container movement.…

[ad_1] Parker Abercrombie is a software engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he builds software to support Mars science missions. He has a special interest in geographic information systems (GIS) and has worked with teams at NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy on systems for geographic visualization and data management. Parker holds an…

[ad_1] Several months ago, Red Hatters David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson welcomed Paul Smith, Red Hat Public Sector VP, onto their podcast, The Dave & Gunnar Show, where they discussed Smith’s experience in an open organization. The conversation is insightful—and we recommend tuning in. Here’s how Smith describes the culture shock he experienced when transitioning…

[ad_1] One of the most common tasks in any company’s open source department is evaluating internal software to see if it would be a good candidate to give back to the community. When performing this task at PayPal, we found it useful to take each potential open source project through a vetting process originally framed…

[ad_1] Recently, I caught up with Daniel Nazer of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to pose a few questions relating to software patents. Daniel is a staff attorney at EFF, where he occupies the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents and focuses on patent reform. Daniel will be speaking at SCaLE 14x about the…