[ad_1] The past few years have seen a huge surge in the number of consumer devices with voice control features that have hit the market. First came the voice assisting smartphone, with Google Assistant and Siri, and now making their way into the rest of your house with always-listening devices like Amazon Echo and starting…

[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, current events, design, and photography. Outside the office, he enjoys travel, film, and gaming. Opensource.com is pleased to announce the LulzBot Mini 3D Printer is the grand prize for our 2016…

[ad_1] It’s that time of year again! Our amazing community members shared some of their favorite open-source-related products and gifts with us, and we’ve pulled together some of the best for our annual holiday gift guide. Kick off the holiday shopping season by checking out these 10 great gifts for open source enthusiasts. While you’re…

[ad_1] For anything involving code, programming clubs often turn to GitHub, which has become the standard for open source project hosting for thousands of projects all over the world. GitHub organizations are for creating teams of people working on projects; organizations can have many repositories and smaller teams inside of them. Here’s how you get started. Creating teams Team…

[ad_1] Technology is social before it’s technical. —Gilles Deleuze Humans are driven quite a bit by emotions. You may be a rational human being, but your emotions will still drive many of your choices. You can be excited, angry, interested, or sad about things—it doesn’t matter—you’ll react to those emotions and you’ll very often leak that…

[ad_1] The Opensource.com team thanks our community moderators, writers, community members, readers, and colleagues for another exciting year in the world of open source. In the past 12 months, we’ve published more than 1,100 articles and welcomed nearly 300 new writers. We couldn’t do it without the vibrant, growing Opensource.com community. Thank you to our…

[ad_1] In March 2015, the leadership of Berlin-based Zalando gathered the company’s entire tech team in a hip underground techno club (it’s Berlin, after all) and announced a new way of working—something called “Radical Agility.” Inspired by Daniel Pink’s Drive, Brian Robertson’s Holacracy system and the agile movement, Radical Agility emphasizes Drive’s call for autonomy,…

[ad_1] It is human nature to want to share the enthusiasm you have for a subject or project with others. Wikipedia is a great place for that, where you can record your expertise and create a fact-based touchpoint for your interest. The site’s mission is altruistic, and it has been my experience that Wikipedia administrators zealously guard against…

[ad_1] What does developer advocate Burr Sutter have to do with “DevOps king” Gene Kim and his book, The Phoenix Project? As Sutter explained in his five-minute lightning talk at All Things Open 2016, they share a passion for hands-on technologists—the developers that craft awesome code and the operators who spin out the infrastructure to run…

[ad_1] Thus far, we’ve discussed the importance of setting goals to guide the metrics process, avoiding vanity metrics, and outlined the general types of metrics that are useful for studying your community. With a solid set of goals in place, we are now ready to discuss some of the technical details of gathering and analyzing…