The Opensource.com preview for August

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The Opensource.com preview brings you highlights from last month, editorial announcements for coming months, and other tidbits.

Highlights from July

In July, we published 92 articles, including two series: Open Source for System Administrators and Texas Linux Fest.

Editorial announcements

Open source is playing a greater role in education than ever before. What tools can help students learn, start new projects, and do their homework? What tips and tricks can teachers employ to use open source software and hardware to teach students the fundamentals of science, math, and more? How does the inexpensive and open nature of open source software and hardware give teachers, parents, and student alike a leg up? Find out in our Back to School series in August.

In September, open source is going w-o-r-l-d-w-i-d-e with a new series that covers global open source projects or initiatives. Articles welcome! Now accepting article proposals. Drafts due August 26. Send your idea or a draft for review to our webform.

A few ideas:

humanitarian projects
government initiatives
international communities
remote team collaboration
traveling the globe with open source

Check out the Opensource.com editorial calendar and columns for additional writing opportunities. Not sure about writing? Well, we've rounded up 7 big reasons to contribute to Opensource.com.

If you're organizing an open source conference or event, be sure to add it to our community calendar.

Got questions? Email us at open@opensource.com and find us on Freenode IRC at #opensource.com.

Conversations: Open organizations

One year after the publication of his 2015 book, The Open Organization (Harvard Business Review Press), Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst explains what the community of innovative thinkers, writers, and practitioners that coalesced around his writing have taught him about the future of management and work.

Catalyst-In-Chief collects Jim's contributions to the ongoing conversation about the ways open source principles can form the bedrock of the twenty-first century's most innovative organizations—and teaches tomorrow's leaders what they'll need to make those organizations great.

Download your Creative Commons-licensed copy or purchase a paperback copy of the book from our publishing partner, Lulu. Please note that this book is sold entirely at cost. Plus, the book's soure code is also available.

Join our Twitter chat on Thursday, August 25

The theme is "Open Organizations' Greatest Challenges." And the proposed topics are: prominent and pervasive barriers to transparency, meritocracy, front-line engagement, and accountability.

With special guests: