[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,…

[ad_1] The free and open source communities in India, particularly Mozilla and Wikimedia communities, are leading two unique global events for better privacy and in support of free software. January Privacy Month is led by the Mozilla community in India to educate the masses about online privacy via both online and offline outreach events. And, Freedom in Feb is…

[ad_1] In this bi-weekly open gaming roundup, we take a look at the new Minecraft launcher, Google’s Tilt Brush Toolkit, a linux.conf.au talk about porting games to Linux, and more. Open gaming roundup for January 15-28, 2017 Minecraft’s new launcher available on Linux Minecraft’s new launcher will be available on Linux. Gaming on Linux has screenshots of…

[ad_1] About the author Jen Wike Huger – Jen Wike Huger is the Content Manager for Opensource.com. She manages the publication calendar, coordinates the editing team, and guides new and current writers. Follow her on Twitter @jenwike, and see her extended portfolio at Jen.io. About the author Jen Wike Huger – Jen Wike Huger is the Content Manager for…

[ad_1] Privacy, especially online privacy, is hard to define. It’s a term that means something slightly different to each person, and each person has a different tolerance level for what’s acceptable and what’s unacceptable. One thing can generally be said of it, though—in a free society, people ought to be in control of their own…

[ad_1] In business speak, an “emerging market” is a market that is not yet well developed but on the rise and shows strong potential to be as robust as other developed markets. The Wikipedia definition focuses purely on countries, but this is a limited view of the meaning of “market.” Whether a market is developed or emerging…

[ad_1] Recently, I won a LulzBot Mini 3D printer in an Opensource.com giveaway. What good fortune! Here’s how I got started learning how to use it, and what I made with it. Spoiler: This printer is a top-quality product, and ready to go out of the box. It is also open hardware and supports a full open…

[ad_1] Purpose is the first thing to consider when you’re assembling any team. If one person could achieve that purpose, then forming the team would be unnecessary. And if there was no main purpose, then you wouldn’t need a team at all. But as soon as the task requires more expertise than a single person…

[ad_1] As anyone trying to innovate in the open source space can tell you, patents are nearly useless. However, Michigan Tech has released a free inactive patent search for finding public domain intellectual property in the hope of fostering innovation in the open source arena. Patents were initially written into the U.S. constitution to enhance…

[ad_1] Backups are an incredibly important aspect of a system administrator’s job. Without good backups and a well-planned backup policy and process, it is a near certainty that sooner or later some critical data will be irretrievably lost. All companies, regardless of how large or small, run on their data. Consider the financial and business…