Category: OpenSource

  • Today's #OpenOrgChat: Open organizations and accountability

    [ad_1] For more discussion on open source and the role of the CIO in the enterprise, join us at The EnterprisersProject.com. The opinions expressed on this website are those of each author, not of the author’s employer or of Red Hat. Opensource.com aspires to publish all content under a Creative Commons license but may not…

  • Containing container chaos with Kubernetes

    [ad_1] You’ve made the switch to Linux containers. Now you’re trying to figure out how to run containers in production, and you’re facing a few issues that were not present during development. You need something more than a few well-prepared Dockerfiles to move to production. What you need is something to manage all of your containers: a container…

  • Checking in on the Taiga project management tool

    [ad_1] Taiga is one of the most popular open source project management tools out there right now. It is known for being usable and having a beautiful interface, and Opensource.com listed it in both the Top 5 open source project management tools in 2015 and the Top 11 project management tools for 2016. I covered Taiga soon after…

  • Star Trek: inspiring people and their tech since 1964

    [ad_1] Star Trek has inspired fans, technologies, and careers ever since its creation in 1964 by Gene Roddenberry. Fans use the original story, or “source code,” to create fan-made films, cartoons, and games. One of the more notable fan creations is the web series Star Trek Continues, which has faithfully adapted Roddenberry’s universe and redistributed it to the…

  • How a free mobile app fights Ebola and other global epidemics

    [ad_1] The enormity and severity of the West African Ebola epidemic that began in 2014 is hard to fathom. The outbreak resulted in more than 11,000 deaths, and hundreds of thousands of people affected by loss. Providing adequate care for any medical condition depends on information, but even more so when dealing with an epidemic…

  • Dear younger self, here are four tips for reaching your goals

    [ad_1] Dear younger me, I am writing to you from 10 years in the future. Over the next ten years, you’ll find that you love computers, but there’s a barrier to you starting a career based on this thing you love. You will trip over an oversupply of information from online publications, e-books, and tutorials promising to teach you X…

  • How to partner with external marketing agencies

    [ad_1] This article is the second in a two-part series on building communities of marketing partners. Read the first part. A community-powered approach to working with the broad ecosystem of marketing agencies—to which more and more firms are turning these days—can produce new and inspiring results. I’ve seen it myself since I began leading marketing at…

  • A beginner's bumpy journey to find a few good bugs

    [ad_1] Did you land on this story looking for advice on how to start contributing to open source? There are tons of these stories on the interwebs, aren’t there? And I am sure you must have read a lot of them by now, because you’ve been trying to start contributing for quite some time. Maybe you…

  • Overcoming language and distance barriers in open source projects

    [ad_1] Open source communities were among the first to use the Internet to make the physical distance between people irrelevant. The Internet is a great tool, since it helps us collaborate wherever we are. It doesn’t matter if you’re having lunch at the Eiffel Tower or waking up in sunny San Francisco, the Internet has helped us connect people…

  • Making installation easy, Hackathon winners, and more OpenStack news

    [ad_1] Are you interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. OpenStack around the web There is a lot of interesting stuff being written about OpenStack. Here’s a sampling from some of our favorites: read more [ad_2]…