[ad_1] A CEO’s pride and determination can be a company’s greatest asset or its greatest weakness. So how does a company ensure that it functions as the former and not the latter? Open sourcing—and becoming a more open organization—might be part of the secret. In many small, privately held Japanese companies with which I’ve worked,…

[ad_1] In this article, I review some of the top open source business intelligence (BI) and reporting tools. In economies where the role of big data and open data are ever-increasing, where do we turn in order to have our data analysed and presented in a precise and readable format? This list covers tools which…

[ad_1] Mattermost does open source the right way. Open source software that is to succeed in this new world is going to have to be better than anything else. You can’t sell just openness anymore; it is added value, not a unique selling point. Open source software now has to sell user experience. In a…

[ad_1] Many companies benefit from open source, and countless companies have opted to open source components of their infrastructure (or even their bread and butter) in an effort to give back. However, there are a lot of misconceptions about what happens when you open up your business’ code and workflows to the public, and as…

[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]…

[ad_1] In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at desired job skills for open source developers, resources for understanding open source licenses, and more. Open source news roundup for June 19-25, 2016 Desired job skills for open source developers Yuri Bykov, who manages data science at Dice, highlighted…

[ad_1] In this week’s edition, we take a look at Pac-Man 256, Ashes of the Singularity‘s plan for a Linux release, and more. Open gaming roundup for June 19-25, 2016 Pac-Man 256 Pac-Man needs no introduction. Pac-Man 256 is a new variant of the arcade classic with extra twists. You can now play in co-op…

[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, we highlight terminal games for Linux, the still-alive-and-kicking COBOL, a few obscure and minor Linux tools, cross-platform methods and tools, and chess Android apps. Top 5 articles of the week 5. 7 open source Android apps for chess players With these seven open source apps, you can play chess against…

[ad_1] If you’re blind or visually impaired like I am, you usually require various levels of hardware or software to do things that people who can see take for granted. One among these is specialized formats for reading print books: Braille (if you know how to read it) or specialized text formats such as DAISY.…

[ad_1] The trouble with video files is that they are not easily parseable. How can your computer tell whether that 8 GB file in your ~/Movies folder is the latest superhero movie, or your daughter’s soccer game? I consider myself an early adopter of digital content. I prefer a digital format, and since I consume…