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Contributing back to society: eejot.org

Meet Prabhat Jha. He founded an organization called Eejot, which means "light." Its mission is to improve and facilitate education in remote villages in Nepal.

Recently, he traveled back to the village in Nepal where he grew up, and turned his vacation into an opportunity to give back to his community. Watch the video to learn more about the work of Eejot, which includes mentoring and education, health camps, and open source awareness seminars. » Read more

1 CommentPosted 1 Jun 2010 by Kim Jokisch (Red Hat)

Spreading the dandelions: Open Your World recap

Thank you to all who joined us for the first Open Your World forum yesterday, and a special thanks to our speakers. We hope you all learned something new to apply to your lives. » Read more

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application/pdf iconOpen Source for America, Jeremy Allison and Terri Molini
application/pdf iconOpen Source License Compliance, Richard Fontana
application/pdf iconThe Stimulus and Standards, Dr. John Halamka
application/pdf iconThe Challenges and Rewards of Diving In, Matt Jadud
application/pdf iconWikimedia: Strategic Planning the Open Source Way, Eugene Eric Kim
application/pdf iconFree and Open Technologies: A Policy Update from the European Union, Karsten Gerloff and Graham Taylor
application/pdf iconTransformation, the Open Source Way, Michael Tiemann
application/pdf iconRadically Simple IT or... A Strategic Argument for Open Source, Dr. David Upton
application/pdf iconThe Open Source Way: Creating and nurturing communities of contributors, Karsten Wade
application/pdf iconMusic Q&A: Daniel James, Curt Smith, and Brad Sucks
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1 CommentPosted 28 May 2010 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Openness, transparency, and community: The future of commenting on the web

It's not often that I find something in the comments on a major news site that's more interesting than the original article. But that's exactly what I just came across--and it's a comment about comments. How meta. » Read more

7 CommentsPosted 27 May 2010 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Open Your World forum: Thanks for coming

That image isn't quite true anymore. It was today, but now it's over. But if you missed it, you can still register here and view the archives. We'll tell you more tomorrow.

6 CommentsPosted 27 May 2010 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Open Your World forum preview: Q&A on music and Creative Commons

This Thursday at the Open Your World forum (have you registered?), we'll be welcoming three people from the music industry to answer your questions about their work and releasing music under a Creative Commons license. Here's a sneak peek at who you'll be talking to. » Read more

0 CommentsPosted 26 May 2010 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Fedora's Paul Frields: Leadership, trust, fail early and often

Esse quam videri. That's the first thing I saw when I went to see what Paul Frields was up to on his blog. Fun fact: it's also the North Carolina state motto and something I talk about at new hire orientation here at Red Hat. But then I thought about that phrase, and I thought about the responses to the interview questions below. I came to the conclusion that Paul is one of the few people I know who actually exemplifies the meaning of this Latin phrase. "To be, rather than to seem." » Read more

5 CommentsPosted 25 May 2010 by Jason Hibbets (Red Hat)

Poll: Estimating the impact of the Facebook exodus

QuitFacebookDay.com hasn't even gathered a significantly measureable percentage of the Facebook population. But there may be a lot of people leaving who aren't speaking up there. So here's a poll--aka, a completely unscientific way--to see how widespread the Facebook exodus is. How big has the impact been on your friends list?

Discuss Facebook and the future of social networking in this post.

0 CommentsPosted 21 May 2010 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Facebook: The privacy saga continues

Even if you'd never heard of Facebook before this week (unlikely as that may seem to most of our readers), it's tough to avoid now. The privacy fiasco has even hit the cover of Time magazine.

And yet, I have to admit: Most of the news I hear about this, I hear via Facebook. That is to say, I haven't left yet. For all its wrongdoing, the fact remains that Facebook keeps me in touch with people I otherwise would lose track of. And I know I'm not alone in that. » Read more

11 CommentsPosted 21 May 2010 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Open sound series: Part 2 - OpenChord.org

In my previous article, I discussed the weird ways in which the open source world operates. Keeping true to that sentiment, this post has a very similar story—all while mixing together two of my favorite things: video games and music. » Read more

2 CommentsPosted 18 May 2010 by Travis Kepley (Red Hat)

A brief history of commercial gaming on Linux (and how it's all about to change)

I'm excited. I mean really excited. Excited to the point that I can hardly think. I'm talking six-year-old trying to go to sleep on Christmas Eve excited. But before I get to why, let's take a trip back to 1999. » Read more

14 CommentsPosted 13 May 2010 by Travis Kepley (Red Hat)