[ad_1] I have always interested in historical dates and determining what actual day of the week an event occurred on. What day of the week was the Declaration of Independence signed? What day of the week was I born on? What day of the week did the 4th of July in 1876 occur on? I know that…

[ad_1] I’ve been doing open source documentation for a long time. Over the past decade, there have been a lot of attitude shifts regarding authoring and publishing. Some of these trends seem to go in cycles, such as the popularity of semantic markup. The latest trends move documentation closer to code, what many have called…

[ad_1] Let’s take a trip back in time to the early, simpler days of the web. A time when most of us used low-powered PCs or dumb terminals, often over slow dial-up connections. We generally visited web pages using command-line, text-only browsers like the venerable Lynx. Jump forward to these days of web browsers like Firefox,…

[ad_1] During OSCON a few years ago, Nicole Engard stopped to chat with a few representatives of women-in-tech nonprofit ChickTech. Today, she’s the founder and coordinator of the organization’s chapter in Austin, Texas. In her lightning talk at All Things Open, Engard shared a bit about her personal journey to ChickTech as well as some…

[ad_1] “Organizational culture” is something plenty of people are puzzling over today, and with good reason. More and more leaders are realizing that the culture permeating and guiding their organizations will determine whether they succeed or fail. The term “organizational culture” refers to an alignment between two forces inside an organization: values and behaviors. Aligning…

[ad_1] Because the Linux kernel community celebrated a quarter-century of development in 2016, many people have asked us the secret to the project’s longevity and success. I usually laugh and joke that we really have no idea how we got here. The project has faced many disagreements and challenges along the way. But seriously, the…

[ad_1] Election night for the US presidential election as come and gone, but the memory of our hackathon lives on. Stepping forward and taking action is a characteristic of the open source community, which wields technology and its application as simple force for good. For the sixth time that long-standing tradition of civic duty and…

[ad_1] Grasping the nuances of hardware supply chains and their management is straightforward—you essentially are tracking moving boxes. Managing something as esoteric as resources for building software with a variety of contributions made by the open source community is more amorphic. When thinking about open source platforms and supply chains, I thought of the supply…

[ad_1] Many of you reading this will be fans of open source who would love to get out and meet open source leaders, companies, and users at conferences. With most of us having to prioritize conferences either due to budgetary or family reasons (or both), knowing which events we should prioritize can be difficult. I…

[ad_1] My selection for Best Couple of 2015—yes, that was last year—was ssh and tar, a pair of Linux commands that work together nicely to accomplish great things. This year I have made a different type of selection for Best Couple of 2016. My choices for Best Couple this year are actually a pair of…