OSCON Austin 2016

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Read our collection of OSCON Austin 2016 interviews, reports, and articles:

Interviews

• OSCON moves to Austin: Will the 18th OSCON be the best one yet?—Nicole Engard interviews conference chairs, Kelsey Hightower, Scott Hanselman, and Rachel Roumeliotis.
• Impostor syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect in communities—Rikki Endsley interviews Jessica Rose of Dreamfactory
• How MongoDB motivates and inspires its developer community—Robin Muilwijk interviews Meghan Gill of MongoDB
• Technology so easy a lawyer can do it—Ben Cotton interview Zoe Landon, Marketo
• Teaching teachers to teach open source—Bryan Behrenshausen interviews Heidi Ellis and Greg Hislop
• Is your open source community optimized for contributors?—Don Watkins interviews Josh Matthews, platform developer at Mozilla
• Storming the government castle—Scott Nesbitt interviews Morgan Senkal and Kathy Lee
• 5 open source programs for the automated teen's toolbox—Rikki Endsley interviews Keila Banks
• Evangelizing open source: Interview with OSCON speaker Gabrielle Crevecoeur—Robin Muilwijk interviews Gabrielle Crevecoeur
• Contributing to open source software with Ian Varley of Salesforce—Phil Shapiro interviews Ian Varley, Salesforce
• What makes React so special?—Don Watkins interviews Brian Holt
• Confessions of a cross-platform developer—Marcus Hanwell interviews Andreia Gaita
• I am your user. Why do you hate me?—Deb Nicholson interviews Donna Benjamin and Leslie Hawthorn

Articles

Save development time and effort with Ruby—by Jay McGavren, author of Head First Ruby (O'Reilly, 2015)

4 keys to leading open source teams—by Tessa Mero, Cisco developer evangelist

An introduction to data processing with Cassandra and Spark—Dani Traphagen and Jon Haddad

174 OSCON speakers to follow on Twitter—by Rikki Endsley

Reports

4 ways to share power, not hoard it—by Nicole Engard

5 keys to hacking your community. What works?—by Nicole Engard

Takeaways from Docker's Solomon Hykes keynote at OSCON—by D Ruth Bavousett

Computer science professor on the changing face of tech—by D Ruth Bavousett

The first steps to addressing your impostor syndrome—by Nicole Engard

A 5-step process for hiring tech talent—by D Ruth Bavousett

Cory Doctorow on the real-world dangers of DRM—by Nicole Engard

The most important skill you need as a leader—by Nicole Engard

The new open source: Money, corporations, and identity—by Nicole Engard

Build your own artificial pancreas system to regulate insulin delivery—by D Ruth Bavousett

Open source at your company? 6 questions your manager will ask—by Nicole Engard

7 ways to make new contributors feel welcome—by Nicole Engard

How to make a culture change at your company—by Nicole Engard

3 alternatives to resumes for hiring talent—by Nicole Engard

A 5 step plan for making sure new contributors have a positive experience—by D Ruth Bavousett