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A short introduction to GitHub
[ad_1] Summary of All Things Open 2015 session with Lee Faus, GitHub 101: An introduction I am on GitHub and have committed the Koha manual to our git repository, but I’m not sure how to use GitHub to it’s fullest capabilities, so I was excited to attend Lee Faus’s introduction to GitHub. For those who…
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What is your favorite open source video player?
[ad_1] Opensource.com is a place where we share stories about how people around the world are exploring an open source universe. See how the principles of open source software and the open source way are being applied to different disciplines including business, education, government, health, law, and life. Follow us on Twitter @opensourceway. [ad_2] Source link
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Building a connected car with Restlet Framework
[ad_1] Will your car be controlled by open source software one day? Ericsson Research is taking this question seriously, with the help of the open source Restlet Framework project, where a simple text message can turn on the air conditioning before you walk back to your car. “We chose Restlet Framework to implement our web…
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A breakdown of FOSS for students and researchers in academia
[ad_1] This article provides an overview of free and open source software (FOSS) that may be of use to students and researchers in academia, based on my own experience in psychology studies. I use Ubuntu Linux, which is a FOSS operating system, but the software discussed in this article is multi-platform; in other words, it…
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Mentoring: a reward for both parties
[ad_1] Are you a mentor? Or, maybe you’re someone who identifies as a bridge builder, just looking for the right opportunity to help someone out—because working in tech can, well, be hard sometimes. One of Mozilla’s senior engineering program managers, Larissa Brown Shapiro, wants to show us how mentoring in tech communities can be rewarding…
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3 big ways to encourage smarter teamwork
[ad_1] Business problems today are too big for any one person to solve. Agile teams are much more effective at solving problems than are lone geniuses. So why do we still reward the smartest people in the room more so than those who excel at working with others? You know who I’m talking about: the…
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Using Git and mailing lists time zones to find out where developers live
[ad_1] Where do the developers in my FOSS community live? For large open source communities where personal contact with developers is impossible, answering this simple question may be difficult. In some projects, developers have the option of registering personal geographical information such as a country or city of residence or GPS coordinates. For example, this…
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Where to find high-quality, Linux-compatible music
[ad_1] I’m sitting in my living room listening to Thievery Corporation‘s Babylon Rewound on the home stereo. A lot of this glorious music is coming from the general vicinity of the speakers, but there is a significant part coming from hard to my left, about two meters to the left of the leftmost speaker. Really?…
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Distributed systems, like pine trees, want to be left alone
[ad_1] If you attend LISA15 in Washington D.C. this month, you’ll want to catch James Mickens’ closing keynote, It Was Never Going to Work, So Let’s Have Some Tea. James Mickens has a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, and he is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Harvard.…
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Dispatches from the Tokyo OpenStack Summit
[ad_1] Interested in keeping track of what’s happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. In this special edition of our weekly OpenStack news, we round up the news and events from the Tokyo OpenStack Summit last week. Our roundup of the developers’ listserv…