[ad_1] About the author Jason Hibbets – Jason Hibbets is a senior community evangelist in Corporate Marketing at Red Hat where he is a community manager for Opensource.com. He has been with Red Hat since 2003 and is the author of The foundation for an open source city. Prior roles include senior marketing specialist, project…

[ad_1] Since 2010, 29,000 students have completed the Wiki Ed program. They have added 25 million words to Wikipedia, or the equivalent of 85,000 printed pages of content. This is 66% of the total words in the last print edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. When Wiki Ed students are most active, they are contributing 10% of…

[ad_1] Point of sale (POS) systems have come a long way from the days of simple cash registers that rang up purchases. Today, POS systems can be all-in-one solutions that include payment processing, inventory management, marketing tools, and more. Retailers can receive daily reports on their cash flow and labor costs, often from a mobile…

[ad_1] The world’s best conceptual introduction to shell scripting comes from an old AT&T training video. In the video, Brian W. Kernighan (the “K” in awk) and Lorinda L. Cherry (co-author of bc) demonstrate how one of the founding principles of UNIX was to empower users to leverage existing utilities to create complex and customized…

[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] In this open gaming roundup, we take a look at Discord, a popular chat and VOIP client among gamers which is now supported on Linux; a new Gaming as a Service platform LiquidSky; and more gaming news. Open gaming roundup for January 1-14, 2017 Discord chat and VOIP client for Linux Discord, a popular chat and VOIP client…

[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, we highlight common Linux issues, Exercism to improve your programming skills, how to get started as an open source programmer, a few to-do list managers, and Clang-format for clean code. Top 5 articles of the week 5. Using Clang-format to ensure clean, consistent code This article touts the merits…

[ad_1] The primary language of most open source projects is English, but open source users and contributors span the globe. Non-native speakers face many communication and cultural challenges when participating in the ecosystem. In this article, we will share challenges, how to overcome them, and best practices for easing onboarding of non-native speakers, as non-native English…

[ad_1] Music is a part of life. Wikipedia’s article on the history of music contains this great phrase: “Since all people of the world, including the most isolated tribal groups, have a form of music….” Well, we open source folk form a tribe—that’s for sure. I propose that our “form of music” includes open music…

[ad_1] I’m a part of the Drupal community, which has more than 100,000 active contributors worldwide. And among them is a growing group of employees who are encouraged by their employers to contribute to open source. These days, finding a seasoned developer whose resume or CV doesn’t mention an open source contributionor two (or more)…