"When you go to a store and buy an electronic gizmo, does it ever occur to you that you could make one yourself? Or even that it would be FUN to make one yourself?" This is…
Opensource.com is off to a strong start to the year with a record month in January bringing in 299,171 page views and 192,599 unique visits. We also ran two brand new series…
Opensource.com will publish articles focused on where beginners can start in open source from February 17 - 28. These stories will include accounts of first time experiences…
Fedora Scientific is a Linux distribution specifically designed for enabling open science. It is a Fedora spin targeted at users whose work involves scientific and numerical…
Open Science Week will begin on June 9! People from around the open source community will share with us, starting on Monday, how open source is being used to better and…
The Digital Index of North American Archaeology ( DINAA) project is an index of linked open data citations and ontological connections that cross-tabulate the following…
A couple of years ago, I needed an oscilloscope for a fun electronics project I was working on: a 500W Tesla coil. I'd already spent quite a bit of money importing a kit of…
In late November 2012, the Open Source Malaria ( OSM) team gained a new member who lived and worked almost 1700 kilometers away from the synthetic chemistry hub at the…
Since the launch last June of Mozilla Science Lab, we’ve been working to unpack what science on the web and like the web means, and what Mozilla can do to support it. View the…
When it comes to opening up your work there is, ironically, a bit of a secret. Here it is: being open—in open science, open source software, or any other open community—can be…
Years ago, in a graduate computer science course, I was tasked with implementing an algorithm for "variational image segmentation by motion detection." The algorithm was, as…
The subsequent rules of thumb arose during the development of the Empirical Gramian Framework ( emgr), a young open source software project in the Workgroup for Numerical…
