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[ad_1] Open source software seems like a perfect fit for government IT projects. Developers can take advantage of existing code bases and, it’s hoped, mold that code to their needs quickly and at less cost than developing code from scratch. Over the last few years, governments in the U.S. and abroad have been more closely…

[ad_1] When Docker brought new life to Linux containers at the beginning of 2013, the technology quickly gained popularity among software developers. Today Docker has millions of container downloads, thousands of community contributors, and countless third party projects who are using it. What explains this extraordinary popularity?  There are many articles out there trying to answer that question, describing the Docker features…

[ad_1] Human beings are complicated animals. We are packed with ambitions, fears, desires, anxieties, and other nuggets of the human condition. Of course, the extent and manifestation of these different elements varies from person to person, across cultures, and in different environments. This makes building human systems—such as communities or companies—complicated. To some (typically bureaucrats),…

[ad_1] Whether you’re teaching a piece of software or a concept, facilitating a workshop to hack on a project or product, or even organizing a donor night for your local nonprofit, you will have to deal with multiple personality types. And anyone leading an open organization today knows that managing group and team dynamics is an…