[ad_1] In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Attic Labs’ new open source database, open source firmware on TP-Link routers, and more. Open source news roundup for July 31-August 6, 2016 Attic Labs announces new open source database You’d think that the last thing the world needs is…

[ad_1] In this week’s edition, we take a look at the release of Disney’s retro games for Linux, Transport Fever announced for Linux, and more. Open gaming roundup for July 31-August 6, 2016 Disney’s Lion King, Jungle Book, and Aladdin now available for Linux If you’re a fan of retro games, I have great news…

[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, we highlight open source alternatives to Evernote, a my Linux story from Brazil, thoughts on and a list of graphic design tools, part 5 of Seth Kenlon’s Git series, and a guide to bug fixes that goes beyond triage. Top 5 articles of the week 5. How to fix…

[ad_1] Open source is often the heart of many civic technology solutions because using open source leverages the minds of many. Small web solution providers, in particular, often turn to open source as a way to deliver services without having to reinvent the wheel. I recently found out about Digital Deployment, a civic web solution…

[ad_1] Wiki Conference India 2016 (WCI), the largest gathering of contributors to Wikipedia and its sister projects in South Asia, will be held during August 5-7 this year in Chandigarh, India. The first iteration of this event was five years ago in 2011. The event is focused around South Asian language Wikipedias and Wikimedia projects.…

[ad_1] 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 as the managing editor of Sys…

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[ad_1] In 2014, my colleague Jason Hibbets wrote up a great article based on an excellent talk from Mark Atwood on the skills necessary to get a job with open source. In the past two years, as we’ve seen open source move even further into the mainstream of practically every organization from the large to the…

[ad_1] “Dad, I killed Windows, but I just realized I still need it. Can you help me?” “No, you broke it, you fix it.” This was sometime around 2008. I wasn’t even 20 years old. I didn’t know how to code (apart from basic HTML stuff), nor did I have any particular tech skills. However,…

[ad_1] Of all the concepts we associate with open organizations today, meritocracy might be the most complicated, complex, and controversial. I remember vividly a conversation that illustrated this for me. Speaking with someone at a banking conference, I suggested that, in organizations wishing to foster cultures of innovation, the best ideas should always win—and that…