It's been a great year for the opensource.com Life channel. We've seen tremendous growth of the open source community, and it's been a pleasure to help record and publicize all the exciting projects all of you are working on. Here are some articles that represent the gamut of topics and stories that came through the Life channel in 2012:
Open space
NASA achieves data goals for Mars rover with open source software
NASA launches code.nasa.gov to share and collaborate further with the open source community
Open music
Open source software helps artists create music
The DRM graveyard: A brief history of digital rights management in music
Open source design in music and ecology
Open beverages
Beer: The open source beverage of choice
Homeroaster crafts a pumpkin spice latte the open source way
Beer brings people together: Obama, homebrewers, and online communities
Open gaming
Steam for Linux gets three new games
Creating better art for open source games
Open maps
Open source wayfinding with Walk [Your City]
OpenStreetMap makes first open map of the world
Open source analogies
An open source analogy: Open source is like sharing a recipe
Open source is like falling in love
The day my mind became open sourced
Open source for beginners
It’s scary to join an open source project
Contribute to an open source project no matter your experience level
I also want to add a list of the top 10 articles from the Life channel based on page views. Let us know in the comments which stories were your favorites. And it doesn't have to be one of the articles mentioned here!
Top 10 open*life posts in 2012:
- Raspberry Pi, Allwinner, and CuBox in the Linux hardware race to tiniest and cheapest
- A tour through open source creative tools
- NASA achieves data goals for Mars rover with open source software
- Top ten open source gifts for the holidays
- In Hacker Highschool, students learn to redesign the future
- January 18 captured: A SOPA blackout gallery
- Open Beats rock Brazil
- Debunking The Oatmeal and the perception of Linux as difficult to use
- Three tips for working with open source diagrams
- Why experiment with Linux?
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the Life channel—it's been quite a year!
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