[ad_1] OpenStack is on a six-month release cycle, with each release given a code name starting with consecutive letters of the alphabet. On October 7th, OpenStack Newton was released. Let’s look at a few highlights from OpenStack’s 2016 Newton release. In addition to the usual enormous number of incremental improvements, the Newton release focused on…

[ad_1] In his talk, Joe reminded us of the #1 open source myth: Open source is comprised of mostly volunteers. The truth is, these days, pretty much any major open source project has people who are paid to work on it. There are always people who do it because they love it, but these days…

[ad_1] LEDs are on everything, and almost everyone you know has at least tried a FitBit or similar device, whereas Google Glass didn’t really take off. Despite several years of growth, whether wearable electronics are a fad, or here to keep growing from fun to truly functional is too early to tell. Judge for yourself—read…

[ad_1] Maintaining complex, unique passwords for each site and service you use is among the most common pieces of advice that security professionals provide to the public every year. Yet no matter how many times it is said, it seems like a week doesn’t go by where a high-profile hacking story hits the news, revealing…

[ad_1] How does an open organization make decisions when stakeholders have contradictory priorities? And what if safety and human life are two of those priorities? In such a scenario, it seems that maximizing safety would supersede any other agenda, but engineering has a long history of failures that show otherwise. With their emphasis on open…

[ad_1] About the author Jen Wike Huger – Jen Wike Huger is the Content Manager for Opensource.com. She manages the publication calendar, the editing team, and our writers. Follow her on Twitter @jenwike, and see her extended portfolio at Jen.io. We kick off the 2016 Open Source Yearbook and Best of Opensource.com series. Another month, another preview of what…

[ad_1] About the author The Open Organization – The Open Organization aims to reshape the future of management and collaboration in companies and organizations who want to transform the way they do business. Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst wrote The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance about his leadership transition from Join our #OpenOrgChat on…

[ad_1] About the author VM (Vicky) Brasseur – VM (aka Vicky) is a manager of technical people, projects, processes, products and p^Hbusinesses. In her more than 18 years in the tech industry she has been an analyst, programmer, product manager, software engineering manager, and director of software engineering. Currently she is a Senior Engineering Manager…

[ad_1] During my career I have spent a lot of time packaging other people’s code, writing my own, and working on large software frameworks. I have seen projects that still haven’t released a stable version, never quite hitting 1.0, while others made 1.0 releases within months of beginning development, and then quickly moving on to…

[ad_1] Many educators want to create interactive content for their classroom or online course. If you’re not a HTML5 programmer like most of us, but you have heard HTML5 can simplify your work and provide a great, standard web experience for your students, here’s how to get started. H5P is a free and open source tool that helps you create HTML5…