[ad_1] This article is for the English majors, the bookworms, the lovers of literature, and the people with humanities backgrounds who sometimes struggle with the question, “So do you ever use your English degree?” It’s also for the people who’ve asked that question of their colleagues with non-STEM backgrounds, who’ve been confused about how someone…

[ad_1] I was introduced to open source through immersion when I learned C and Perl in college. Compared to previous programming languages like BASIC and Pascal, which I had learned only from textbooks, I learned C and Perl in the context of the Internet. I would ask and answer questions on USENET newsgroups, and I…

[ad_1] Licenses are the legal underpinning of open source projects, but companies don’t always know how to manage them. Jeff Luszcz founded Palamida to help organizations ensure they were complying with upstream software licenses. Along the way, he and his team discovered that being unaware of the open source licenses in use leads to being…

[ad_1] I worked as a consultant for many years before becoming the CEO of Red Hat. One of the most surprising aspects of that work was that people would open up to me, an outsider, about all the elephants in the room—but they were too polite or embarrassed to call out the obvious issues or…

[ad_1] September was an action packed month, with 684,610 page views and 101 articles published. We ran three series, which included 13 articles in our Back to School theme, and speaker interviews for All Things Open and Grace Hopper Celebration of Women. read more [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Which frontend framework should you pick for your next web app? Pam Selle will address this famously difficult question at this year’s All Things Open in Raleigh. The increasing number of options for frontend frameworks has made the field more diverse, but it has also made it much harder to navigate and keep up…

[ad_1] In my first article in my series, I wrote about the Astro Pi competition, an opportunity for UK school students to have their coded experiments run in space. We’re getting closer and closer to the launch date of December 15, when British European Space Agency (ESA) Astronaut Tim Peake will embark on his six-month…

[ad_1] The hardest part about being a catalyst for change in an organization is convincing everyone that the change is necessary, good, and important. This work is much easier—even unnecessary—if the people affected by the change have had a hand in designing it. How can you change your approach to developing a strategy by asking…

[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

[ad_1] Two new series are coming up for Opensource.com in the month of November. Yes, November—it’s planning time! We invite you to contribute by sending us an email with your name, which series you would like to participate, and your story idea. You can also submit to our webform. Writing for us is a fun…