Life

You can make money with open source. Literally.

This is an old story--two years old, to be specific. But it was new to me when I heard it at LinuxCon, and it was new to a lot of others in the room too. And it was a great story, so I wanted to share it further.

In 2008, the Dutch Ministry of Finance held a competition to design a coin that would honor the country's architecture.

To briefly describe the coin, on one side is a portrait of » Read more

0 CommentsPosted 2 Sep 2010 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Open Your World recap: Stefan Lindegaard on Open Innovation Revolution

After the success of our Open Your World webcast forum in May, we decided to make it a regular event. We're starting the series with Stefan Lindegaard, author of Open Innovation Revolution. The following are a few of the highlights from his talk. You can download a PDF of the slides from the talk at the end of this post, and we expect to post the audio soon.

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0 CommentsPosted 1 Sep 2010 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Today: Open Your World webcast with Stefan Lindegaard on the Open Innovation Revolution

It's not too late to sign up. Register to join us at 1 p.m. ET.

If you've already registered, the URL and dial-in information are in the email you got after registering.

During the webcast, you can ask Stefan questions through Twitter or identi.ca by posting with the #oywf hashtag and @opensourceway. You can also send them from within the forum by clicking on the opensourceway user in the list of participants and sending a private message. » Read more

0 CommentsPosted 1 Sep 2010 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Designing culture: The other community plumbing

One of our frequent writers in the Business channel, Chris Grams, gave the keynote at DrupalCamp Boone today on "Designing culture: The other community plumbing." This post is based on that talk.

Drupal is great as a content management system. But as much as we like it, a community is not built by Drupal. It's built by people. Getting people to work together is not solved by a Drupal installation alone. You need culture--the other community plumbing.

Can culture be designed? Yes. » Read more

0 CommentsPosted 28 Aug 2010 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Illustration: Being a catalyst in communities

Rob Cottingham of the Noise to Signal web cartoon attended Karsten Wade's talk on The Open Source Way Handbook at OSCON. He then posted this great cartoon based on the talk. It's a perfect illustration of the ideas in the handbook. » Read more

1 CommentPosted 27 Aug 2010 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Diaspora arriving September 15

We've waited all summer to find out what will happen when the students who have been working on Diaspora return to school and launch the P2P Facebook killer.

Now September has come, and they've broken their long silence. Diaspora will launch on September 15. » Read more

2 CommentsPosted 26 Aug 2010 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Give me some of that old-time, open source religion

We’ve accepted the obvious benefits of open source principles in business and education, law and healthcare. Openness, transparency, and knowledge-sharing helps more people prosper more quickly. We theorize that it can work in any endeavor where communal information needs to be collected, shared, and maintained. In the Life channel, we get to examine some of the less-obvious avenues where open source is found--and here is one that even surprises us a little: open source religion. » Read more

0 CommentsPosted 26 Aug 2010 by bascha (Red Hat)

So you think you can open source

The seventh season of Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance crowned its latest champion last week, and for the first time since the show debuted in 2005, I did not care. The first six seasons were a fantastically guilty pleasure—like a hip flask of whiskey at a dry wedding—that I hid from friends and colleagues. This year’s contest, however, proved beautifully boring. The choreography and dancing were still stellar but something was missing all season that I could not enunciate. » Read more

1 CommentPosted 24 Aug 2010 by Jay David

Public Domain Mark: A Creative Commons effort to tag the public domain

Earlier this month, Creative Commons asked for comment on the new Public Domain Mark (PDM), "a tool that would make it easy for people to tag and find content already in the public domain."

The tag is meant to work alongside the CC0 public domain waiver. It's not meant as a license or legal instrument--merely as a label to help people find public domain works.
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0 CommentsPosted 20 Aug 2010 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Ready to be an open source contributor but don't know where to start?

In early 2009, as the stories of many websites begin, a few college friends were considering what kind of project they might start together. In this particular case, the result was OpenHatch.

OpenHatch is a place for developers who want to be involved in open source but don't know where to start. You can go to the site and search for a way to contribute based on a language you know or a project you like. You can even search for "bite-size bugs," the bugs that have been tagged by a project as being specifically good for new contributors. » Read more

2 CommentsPosted 19 Aug 2010 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)