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Rust programming language for speed, safety, and concurrency
[ad_1] Rust is a systems programming language that got its start in 2010 with Mozilla Research. Today, one of Rust’s most ardent developers and guardians is Steve Klabnik, who can you find traveling the globe touting it’s features and teaching people how to use it. At All Things Open 2015, Steve will give attendees all…
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Community shares #MyOpenStory on Twitter
[ad_1] Going into this October—our Most Open Month—the goal was pretty simple: We wanted more first-time contributors than any other month in our history. Although we’re already well on our way to meeting that goal, we wanted to give even more people a chance to share their stories. And thus, #MyOpenStory was born: Why did…
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How I learned the difference between a community and an audience
[ad_1] It’s not every day that your CEO gives you a telephone ring, so I definitely remember the day mine phoned me. He’d called to tell me about a puzzling voicemail he’d just received. I was a consultant for a tech community website and the team was rolling out a major site renovation. Our goal…
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An inside look at open source at Facebook
[ad_1] Christine Abernathy, developer advocate for the Facebook open source team, will be speaking at All Things Open this month. In this interview, she tells us more about how Facebook open sources projects at scale and what challenges lie ahead for the open source team there. Christine also references the TODO group, which in the…
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Geriatric Linux: How an 'old geezer' came to terms with computers
[ad_1] I was born in 1933, so computers weren’t something I grew up with. In fact, neither was TV, atomic energy, or even jet planes. For my first 70 years I had neither the need nor the desire to become involved with computers. I retired to a very small town on a mountainside, 50 miles…
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3 open source projects for modern COBOL development
[ad_1] An iconic figure of the early history of computing, Grace Hopper is the grandmother of the COBOL programming language. Of her many claims to fame, she invented the first compiler and helped spread the adoption of machine-independent programming languages. Today her legacy lives on in many ways, including the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women…
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Despite what Zappos says, middle managers still matter
[ad_1] Middle managers have not fared well. Their ranks have been decimated in many organizations, and those that have survived are often perceived as powerless or, worse, as bureaucratic sticks-in-the-mud. This is not fair and it’s flat-out wrong. Take what’s happening with Zappos at the moment. Much has been written about their adoption of a…
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Open source as a tool of cultural change
[ad_1] If you haven’t heard of 18F, its time to get them on your radar. 18F is a digital consultancy in an independent agency, a startup within the General Services Administration (GSA), and a major advocate for open source and open data. I’ve been watching and learning more about this group since shortly after its…
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The importance of face-to-face in the open source world
[ad_1] Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to another Six Degrees column. As usual, get your feedback into the comment box, and within the spirit of this specific column, I hope to see you all at All Things Open October 19-20 in Raleigh. I will be there with many other folks who write for…
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Introducing the Astara project, a preview of Liberty and Mitaka, and more OpenStack news
[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. read more [ad_2] Source link