[ad_1] The Christmas holiday is fast approaching and many of us are thinking about ways we can help others, both near and far. The world certainly needs as much help, kindness, and charity as it can get, and some of us give money, or food, and toys to help out. Whatever we can give out of…

[ad_1] While recently reading The Innovator’s Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent and Lead, by George Couros, I was struck by the parallels between the author’s thinking and that of Jim Whitehurst in The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance. “Sometimes it scares me to think that we have taken the most human profession, teaching, and…

[ad_1] The opening ceremony at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio featured snowboarder Amy Purdy wearing a 3D printed dress, wearing prosthetics printed from the same material as the dress, and dancing with a Kuka robotic arm. The dance was a statement about the merging of the human spirit and technology. “The backstory, which mainstream media…

[ad_1] The public sector tends to lag—some would say drag—behind the private sector when it comes to adopting new technologies. This is also true when it comes to adopting free software: Although companies widely see free technologies as a boon, government organizations often are still locked into proprietary software and work with closed standards. That…

[ad_1] This list of top programming articles from the year on Opensource.com, showcase the depth of the open source community’s latest programming interests. If you share my curiosity for even the tiniest steps forward in open source programming tools and tricks, this article’s for you. How to choose a PHP framework PHP has become one of the workhorses of the…

[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. He is particularly interested in data visualization/analysis, DIY/maker culture, simulations/modeling, geospatial technologies, and cloud computing, especially OpenStack. Follow him on Twitter or Google+. Are you interested in…

[ad_1] In this open gaming roundup, we take a look at Godot’s current development on a new 3D renderer, 1,000 Linux games on Steam, new releases, and more. Open gaming roundup for December 4-17, 2016 More than 1,000 games released on Steam with Linux support Gaming On Linux reported that more than 1,000 games have…

[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, we highlight a story of how the new Bash logo was picked; 9 lessons from Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Linux kernel maintainer; a look back at computing in 1989; 7 Google open source releases in 2016; and, 3 web browsers for the Linux command line. Top 5 articles of the week 5. 3 web browsers for…

[ad_1] If software is pervasive, shouldn’t the people building it be from everywhere and represent different voices? The broadly accepted answer is yes, that we need a diverse set of developers and technologists to build the new digital world. Further, when you look at communities that thrive, they are those that evolve and grow and…

[ad_1] I am far from the only person on a quest for the perfect text editor. It’s become so much a part of technology culture that I’ve actually had the interview question “Vim or GNU Emacs?” come up a couple of times in my career. The bitter truth that regular users of text editors must face,…