[ad_1] Unless your spirit animal is Emily Dickinson, when you make a thing, you want to share it with the world. Sharing your work means that you need a website. Of course, you could simply partake in digital sharecropping and use any of the various social media sites to get your work in front of…

[ad_1] Alvand Salehi, senior technology advisor in the Office of the Federal CIO at the White House, delivered a keynote address at OSCON in early May to talk about the U.S. federal government’s role in open source. Since Salehi joined the CIO team in 2015, the government has made great strides toward open sourcing its code. The…

[ad_1] When it comes to “most valuable tools for untying mental knots and figuring things out,” two items appear at the top of my list. The first is this clip from Benny Hill about what happens when we make assumptions. I saw it on (the opposite of a flat-screen) TV as a child years ago,…

[ad_1] In my last article, I described Autoquote, a script that converts typewriter (or “straight”) quotes to typographic (or “curly”) quotes, which was prompted by a question on the Scribus open source desktop publishing software’s mail list. Most publications adhere to certain style conventions, including the type of quotation marks they use, and a script that automatically corrects…

[ad_1] For a lot of professionals, summer brings opportunities to travel to conferences; with professional travel comes the pain of expense reports. From experience, I can tell you that as much of a pain as it is to keep track of things as you go, sorting through a pile of receipts and dealing with them…

[ad_1] About the author Nicole C. Engard – Nicole C. Engard is a Content Strategist at Red Hat. She received her MLIS from Drexel University and her BA from Juniata College. Nicole volunteers as the Director of ChickTech Austin. Nicole is known for many different publications including her books “Library Mashups”, “More Library Mashups”, and…

[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. Tell us about your virtual machine management…

[ad_1] About the author Alex Sanchez – Alex is the social media, marketing, and syndication specialist for Opensource.com. He’s a multimedia storyteller interested in tech, journalism, design, and photography. Outside the office, he enjoys travel, film, and gaming. It’s official! After months of preparation, orders for InputClub’s fully open source K-Type mechanical keyboard launched this week.…

[ad_1] About the author Ruth Holloway – Ruth Holloway has been a system administrator and software developer for a long, long time, getting her professional start on a VAX 11/780, way back when. She spent a lot of her career (so far) serving the technology needs of libraries, and has been a contributor since 2008…

[ad_1] A phrase I hear quite a bit these days is, “What a great time to be a Mac admin!” I think there are a lot of factors contributing to that feeling, but the one of the biggest is the explosion of tools developed by the incredible open source community managing macOS. Here are eight…