[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. In this week’s Top 5, we highlight an introduction to Eclipse Che, this year’s open source initiatives from Capital…

[ad_1] The world of open source software is a busy place. Sometimes keeping up with all of the news, announcements, and cool things to be discovered can be difficult. Here’s a look at some of what we’re reading today. Yelp open sources Data Pipeline Data Pipeline is Yelp’s internal tool for managing and directing streams…

[ad_1] I started learning stencil printing and hand lettering this year, and became quite enthralled with it. These age old techniques really add something special to postcards, which I usually send to myself, my wife, and my friends while traveling. Of course, I started considering how I could make the artwork from these postcards open to others. First, I take a picture…

[ad_1] The world of open source software is a busy place. Sometimes keeping up with all of the news, announcements, and cool things to be discovered can be difficult. Here’s a look at some of what we’re reading today. Tor hardens Android security In a blog post yesterday, the Tor project announced a refresh of…

[ad_1] This year marks the 15th Blender Conference, held in Amsterdam around the last weekend of October every year. I’ve attended quite a few of these conferences, and each year feels better than the one before. If you’ve never attended the Blender Conference, allow me to set things up for you: By open source conference…

[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 We’re introducing our latest…

[ad_1] October’s #OpenOrgChat brought together members of the open organization and DevOps communities for rapid-fire discussion of the ways organizational cultures are changing. Miss it? Read the recap below. Q1: How would you describe DevOps in a single tweet? A1: #DevOps is a culture, mentality, and practice for continual improvement and collaboration #OpenOrgChat — Jason…

[ad_1] The world of open source software is a busy place. Sometimes keeping up with all of the news, announcements, and cool things to be discovered can be difficult. Here’s a look at some of what we’re reading today. Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation While it may be a logical step from all of the…

[ad_1] Opensource.com community moderator Jono Bacon kicked off keynotes at All Things Open this year to talk about open source communities Building communities Jono mentioned that it’s his goal in life to “understand every nuance of how we build predicable, productive, and accessible communities.” He says we are surrounded by communities. We have Wikipedia, the maker…

[ad_1] It sometimes surprises people that random number generation is a classically famous problem in computer science, because it seems like it should be so easy; just pick a number. And yet it’s hard to get a computer to be random. Many Linux users have some awareness of the /dev/random and /dev/urandom devices, and most…