[ad_1] In recent years, we’ve seen a boost in popularity of community-driven projects. Software and hardware development, social activities, crowdsourcing, manufacture, education—thousands of communities are growing and striving to achieve their goals. Creating a new community can be a difficult task, so the tools used in the process are very important. A community is bound…

[ad_1] I am just a fan boy, and my story’s often told… Apologies to Paul Simon. I imagine my story or some slight variation of it is fairly common. I started with FOSS before it was called FOSS, made a brief forced detour into the dark waters of proprietary software, and then escaped and returned home to…

[ad_1] Are you a system administrator, Linux power user, or just spend a lot of time at the command line? Then chances are, your choice of terminal emulator says something about you. Do you prefer something lightweight? Full of features and customizable options? Or do you just use the default which ships with your distribution?…

[ad_1] An important aspect of open source community shepherding is providing on ramps to your project’s software, making it as easy as possible for new users to find your software, understand it, and apply it to their own use cases. One of the methods many community leads are attracted to is the creation of online…

[ad_1] We’ve all seen behind-the-scenes footage, so it’s no surprise to find out that a great many breathtaking shots never actually existed in reality. You know the kind of shot I mean; maybe a group of heroic dwarves are walking along a precarious ledge, mere inches away from falling to their certain doom into an…

[ad_1] Bryan Behrenshausen | Bryan is a doctoral candidate in Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Since 2011, he’s been the Opensource.com summer intern. When he’s not thinking or writing about all things open source, he’s playing video games or reading classic science fiction. Around the Net, he goes by the…

[ad_1] The 3D printing industry has grown approximately 400% over the past two years (total industry value). At Aleph Objects, Inc., our sales of LulzBot® 3D printers, parts, and plastics have increased 809% over the same period. We surpassed our 2014 sales in May and are on track for over $12 million in sales in…

[ad_1] Developers, like everyone else, often struggle with mental health issues. And like everyone else, these struggles are often left unspoken. In 2013, Ed Finkler decided to change that. Finker started the Open Sourcing Mental Illness campaign to bring the issue to light and prompt discussion. Finkler is active in PHP, Python, and JavaScript communities…

[ad_1] I’ve been using open source for a while—seven years, to be exact. That may not seem like a long time, but when you’re 16 that’s almost half your life. My open source story is that of discovery, education, and mentoring opportunities. I’ve been extremely lucky. I got started with open source in fifth grade…

[ad_1] As many of my regular readers will know, I am a big Ubuntu fan. I spent nearly eight years working at Canonical and my love of Ubuntu has not ceased since I left. One of the fundamental components of Ubuntu is Unity. While Unity ruffled more than a few feathers when it first came…