[ad_1] Last month we looked at digital cell animation with Krita. Cell animation is just one kind of animation, though, so this month we’ll take a look at stop motion animation. As an added feature, since DIY projects have been highlighted in the past weeks, the resulting animations from the application have all been done…

[ad_1] Since I’ve studied civics and governments, I’ve never thought a two-party system of elected officials in our executive and legislative branches was the best form of democracy. It worked for a time, but now it’s time for change. In the United States, our representative democracy has become polarized and plagued with raising money for…

[ad_1] The European-funded IoT open source platform FIWARE has matured significantly in the past two years according to developers, and is now being used in industrial production cases, pilot smart city, and utilities projects. Two projects using the FIWARE platform include a city water quality pilot and an early warning system to identify and prevent…

[ad_1] As a recruiter working in the open source world, I love that I interact every day with some of the smartest people around. I get to hear about the cool projects they’re working on and what they think about the industry, and when they are ready for a new challenge. I get to connect them…

[ad_1] We announced earlier this month that Open States—a project covered on Opensource.com in 2011—is now being maintained by the original creators of the project, a community of Sunlight Foundation alumni and other volunteers. Open States is an effort to collect, and to some extent, standardize legislative information from all 50 states. In practical terms,…

[ad_1] In recent years, we have seen more and more interest in a variance of open source known as innersource. Put simply, innersource is taking the principles of open source and bringing them inside the walls of an organization. As such, you build collaboration and community that may look and taste like open source, but…

[ad_1] When people use your software, they are trying to accomplish a goal. They’re trying to fix a problem, find an ATM, catch a Leafeon. They’re usually not using software because they enjoy it for its own sake. But just because your users are not expecting to enjoy some software doesn’t eliminate their feelings about it.…

[ad_1] In the humble beginnings of the GNU and Linux projects, open source was a primitive and narrowly defined idea. It applied only to programming, and was a largely legal designation that sought to guarantee that source code remained available to users even as others augmented it through subsequent contributions. Now, thirty years later, “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. Our “Open DIY” series launches this month. Welcome to November at Opensource.com! But before we can move fully into…

[ad_1] About the author Rikki Endsley – Rikki Endsley is a community manager for Opensource.com. In the past, she worked as the community evangelist on the Open Source and Standards (OSAS) team at Red Hat; a freelance tech journalist; community manager for the USENIX Association; associate publisher of Linux Pro Magazine, ADMIN, and Ubuntu User; and…