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DevOps Poetry Slam: 5 poems on the art of DevOps
[ad_1] At 30 years of age, LISA is one of the premier system administration conferences in the world. Each year it hosts hundreds of the best sysadmin and infrastructure minds for nearly a week of in depth tutorials and sessions on the latest technologies and techniques. When you collect that many brilliant people in one spot you…
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What happens when we just assume positive intent?
[ad_1] I never make New Year’s resolutions. I’ve never understood the concept, never felt motivated to change with the calendar, and always been cynical of the effectiveness of “resolving” to change. Instead, I like to continually examine my habits and think about how I can improve on a more frequent basis. That said, 2016 has…
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What's your favorite open source animal?
[ad_1] For more discussion on open source and the role of the CIO in the enterprise, join us at The EnterprisersProject.com. The opinions expressed on this website are those of each author, not of the author’s employer or of Red Hat. Opensource.com aspires to publish all content under a Creative Commons license but may not…
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Free as in puppy: The hidden costs of free software
[ad_1] About the author Ben Cotton – Ben Cotton is a meteorologist by training and a high-performance computing engineer by trade. Ben works as a technical evangelist at Cycle Computing. He is a Fedora user and contributor, co-founded a local open source meetup group, and is a member of the Open Source Initiative and a…
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The decline of GPL?
[ad_1] A little while ago I saw an interesting tweet from Stephen O’Grady at RedMonk on the state of open source licensing, including this graph. This graph shows how license usage has changed from 2010 to 2017. In reading it, it is clear that usage of the GPL 2.0 license, one of the purest copyleft…
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9 relevant topics for community leaders today
[ad_1] In 2009, Jono Bacon brought the first Community Leadership Summit to the free and open source world. Five years later, Donna Benjamin hosted an off-shoot event, CLSx at linux.conf.au in Perth. 2017 marks the third year for CLSxAU at LCA. This year the event hosted nearly 30 attendees, each participating in one or more of…
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A getting started guide for contributors, Designate's future, and more OpenStack news
[ad_1] About the author Jason Baker – Jason is passionate about using technology to make the world more open, from software development to bringing sunlight to local governments. Linux desktop enthusiast. Map/geospatial nerd. Raspberry Pi tinkerer. Data analysis and visualization geek. Occasional coder. Cloud nativist. Follow him on Twitter. Explore what’s happening this week in OpenStack,…
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Civilization VI comes to Linux, GDC 2017, and more open gaming news
[ad_1] In this open gaming roundup, we take a look at the release of Civilization VI for Linux, the upcoming Game Developer Conference, and more open gaming news. Open gaming roundup for January 29-February 11, 2017 Civilization VI released for Linux Civilization VI is now available on SteamOS and Linux. Its predecessor, Civilization V, is…
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Top 5: Vim plugins for writers, Raspberry Pi's PIXEL OS, and more
[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, I highlight favorite vim plugins, Getting started with PIXEL OS, OpenToonz for Linux users, GNOME 3 extensions, and careers in open source. Top 5 articles of the week 5. A graduate degree could springboard you into an open source job A professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Electrical & Computer…
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Lessons from a brief career in open source
[ad_1] I don’t think many people answer the question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” with “I want to work in open source.” In my experience, working in the open source community is something that happens as a result of something else. I worked in open source for a short time—in fact, the mission statement of…