[ad_1] The Opensource.com preview brings you highlights from last month, editorial announcements for coming months, and other tidbits. In May, we attended a few conferences and published interviews with speakers and reports live from the event: DrupalCon 2016, The Community Leadership Summit (CLS), OSCON, and Open Summit. We also published a series on Open Source & Hardware that covers everything from stories about electronics…

[ad_1] The Opensource.com preview brings you highlights from last month, editorial announcements for coming months, and other tidbits. In May, we attended a few conferences and published interviews with speakers and reports live from the event: DrupalCon 2016, The Community Leadership Summit (CLS), OSCON, and Open Summit. We also published a series on Open Source & Hardware that covers everything from stories about electronics…

[ad_1] Hello, open gaming fans! In this week’s edition, we take a look at over half a million Steam controllers sold, Tomb Raider patch to improve gameplay, and new games out for Linux. Open gaming roundup for May 29 – June 4, 2016 Tomb Raider patch Released at the end of April 2016 for Linux,…

[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, we highlight an open source 3D printed violin; a poll asking which of these two prominent boards, Raspberry Pi or Arduino, is best for beginners; one grandpa’s Raspberry Pi project day with his grandkids; 6 open source architecture projects to check out; and a poll in honor of GIMP’s 18 years since the release of version…

[ad_1] Humanitarian and development aid is about helping people suffering from both short-term and long-term problems. These problems can be natural (e.g., droughts, floods, and earthquakes) as well as man-made (e.g., poverty, war, and oppression). A recent example of a humanitarian crisis is the refugee situation in Europe, and the disorder in Syria and its…

[ad_1] 130 stories. 130 suggestions, conversations, and provocations. 130 lessons. 130 insights. That’s what we’ve published on Opensource.com in the past year, when we launched the Open Organization channel as a place for readers, writers, thinkers, and leaders to gather to discuss the future of work, management, and leadership. Today, as we celebrate our community’s…

[ad_1] A basic tenet of open organizations is the open communications model. Open communications embodies trust and transparency in all the organization’s relationships. This means individual contributors are engaged and collaborating in organizational decisions, discussions are in the open, and feedback is not just welcomed, but acted upon for the benefit of all. So the…

[ad_1] Everybody is a beginner sometime. And for new users to GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, starting out with a new interface can be daunting, especially when you downloaded it just because you wanted to make a few simple modifications like cropping or resizing an image. Fortunately, there are lots of resources out there…

[ad_1] It will be eighteen years this weekend since GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, hit version 1.0 on June 5, 1996, and over twenty since the open source project first became generally available to the public. In that time, it has come a long way in both the expansion of features and in usability, and…

[ad_1] Screen readers such as Orca work by describing the graphical environment to the user. They deconstruct an arbitrary visual environment that’s built on top of an inherently text-based system. On some systems, this is necessary because there’s no access—at least pragmatically—to the OS by any other means than the graphical interface. As most Linux…