[ad_1] With the basic concepts of IRC under your belt, you’re ready to dive in and get started with IRC. This guide will help minimize the learning curve and get you into the conversations as easily as possible. Once you get started you’ll find that IRC can be a great place for learning, fun, and…

[ad_1] For many students in mathematics, physical sciences, engineering, economics, and other fields with a heavy numeric component, MATLAB is their first introduction to programming or scientific computing in general. It can be a good tool for learning, although in my experience many of the things that students and researchers alike use MATLAB for are…

[ad_1] “Having an expensive camera and Photoshop doesn’t make you a professional photographer—not needing them does.” I’m not sure who the original source of that quote is, but I heard it from one of my professors in college. While most focused on the “expensive camera” part of that quote, I prefer to focus on the…

[ad_1] In the previous two months, we’ve looked at Darktable and digiKam as open source photo management and editing suites. A third open source photographer’s suite, called LightZone, has been around since 2005 as a closed source application, but got open sourced when its parent company dissolved in 2011. As a result, LightZone is now…

[ad_1] When I joined The Hill Center in Durham, North Carolina, as Executive Director nearly two years ago, I realized immediately that I had joined a wonderful, successful, highly conventional education organization. Hill has been transforming students with learning differences into confident, independent learners for nearly 40 years, and many of the faculty and staff…

[ad_1] May was an action-packed month, with 105 articles published, including 31 OSCON interviews, articles, and reports; an open source and hardware series; and a DrupalCon series. We welcomed 21 new authors, and 64% of our content was contributed by members of the open source community. Our community moderators contributed 33 articles (31% of our…

[ad_1] For the last few months, I’ve been talking a lot about using a bare install of standard Linux distribution as a router. I’ve written about it at Ars Technica, I did a presentation at Great Wide Open, and I’m doing another one at SouthEast LinuxFest next week. And I have to tell you, the…

[ad_1] A devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal on April 25, 2015, killing more than 9,000 people, injuring thousands more, and leaving an additional 3 million homeless. Immediately after the earthquake, the government, local and international security forces, and international aid agencies all jumped in to try to help. However, there was a lack of…

[ad_1] The ninth annual Imagine RIT, the Rochester Institute of Technology’s annual innovation and creativity festival, was held on campus May 7. Each year, about 30,000 people arrive on campus to view student, faculty, and staff demonstrations. Visitors experience everything RIT has to offer through interactive presentations, hands-on demonstrations, exhibitions, and research projects set up…

[ad_1] Can you believe we’re already almost half way through 2016? The year is flying by, but not too fast for us to squeeze in a few great books. Once again, we reached out to our friends to find out what they’re reading, too, which helped us put together our annual open source summer reading…