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Free online Linux training, GoDaddy switching to OpenStack, and more
Open source news for your reading pleasure. March 3 - 7, 2014 In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we look at Rochester Institute...
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Posted 7 Mar 2014
Michael Harrison (Red Hat)
open source CMS
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The next CMS Garden may pop up at an event near you
CeBIT is one of the largest information technology (IT) fairs in the world. More than 300,000 attendees from all over the world come to Hannover...
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Posted 7 Mar 2014
ben van 't ende
Making OpenStack international
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Make OpenStack speak your language
Looking for a way to contribute to OpenStack? Coding is just one of the available options. In fact, there are several non-coding activities like...
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Posted 6 Mar 2014
Victoria Martínez de la Cruz
Open source markdown editors
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Three open source markdown editors put to the test
Very much inspired by my interview with Bryan Behrenshausen, I’ve been spending a lot more time working with Markdown. Day-to-day, at work and at...
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Posted 6 Mar 2014
Steven Ovadia
The top ten monthly highlights
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Top 10 posts from Opensource.com in February 2014
We had a stellar February and a new record for Opensource.com bringing in 325,775 page views and 219,300 unique visits. We finished our Women in Open...
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Posted 6 Mar 2014
Jason Hibbets (Red Hat)
networking and open source in schools
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Public schools lack of bandwidth needs attention
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) estimates the US market for pre-K to 12th grade educational software and digital content...
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Posted 5 Mar 2014
Carolyn Fox
Leadership skills from Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst
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Great leaders are comfortable with who they are
Over the last 25 years of my career—from serving as a partner at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), to my time at Delta Air Lines, to my current role...
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Posted 5 Mar 2014
Jim Whitehurst (Red Hat)
design and publish beautiful maps
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How open source cartography pays the bills for one company
Down what appears to be an alley just large enough to drive a delivery truck, Mapbox's Washington, DC office is tucked into its surroundings much...
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Posted 5 Mar 2014
Eric Christensen (Red Hat)
peering into the patent haze
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The Supreme Court jumps into the software patent thicket
Software patent thickets are often compared to minefields, but with a note of resignation, as though there’s no avoiding them. The U.S. Supreme Court...
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Posted 4 Mar 2014
Rob Tiller (Red Hat)
Pushing Linux forward
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Three events that moved Linux forward
Friday evening can be a very busy time in Citibank’s Changi Business Park office in Singapore. Hundreds of mission-critical applications hit the...
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Posted 4 Mar 2014
Aseem Sharma
open clouds
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The potential for OpenStack in the enterprise
Big things are in store for OpenStack this year. The community is growing, now at more than 15,000 people from more than 130 countries. The next...
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Posted 4 Mar 2014
Jason Hibbets (Red Hat)
open innovation
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A formula for launching the Red Hats of the future
Last week Peter Levine, former XenXource CEO and current Andreesen Horowitz partner, wrote an article for TechCrunch: Why There Will Never be Another...
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Posted 3 Mar 2014
Andy Updegrove
open source in government
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The state of open source at the VA (Veterans Affairs)
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the second largest agency of the US federal government. It employs more than 280,000 people, and with...
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Posted 3 Mar 2014
Luis Ibanez
open source project stages
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Moving between the stages of open source projects
In a recent training session, I discussed commitment gradients—how much extra effort is involved to move between each stage of involvement within a...
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Posted 3 Mar 2014
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