Erin Robinson, the Information and Virtual Community Director for the Foundation for Earth Science, the management arm of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners…
Reid Serozi ( @reidserozi), founder of TriangleWiki, explains how the project was created from the structure of LocalWiki, a platform and storage hub for events, people…
People want access to content. And creative commons allowed me to give them access to my content. One man decides to publish his own book—but there's no road map, no previous…
Karen Cranston ( @kcranstn) is an evolutionary biologist at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), a nonprofit science center dedicated to cross-disciplinary…
David Mason ( @dcm) and Heather LaGarde ( @heatherlagarde) were interested in expressing open source in other ways and wanted to help spread mobile and open technologies…
As someone who makes it to about 20 events a year between open source conferences and science-fiction/fandom-type events, I feel qualified to describe Penguicon as a…
Lawrence Lessig will receive a Lifetime Achievement Webby Award for co-founding Creative Commons and " standing up for collaboration." This year also marks the 25th…
I was introduced to the Wikimedia movement primarily as a communications consultant for Wikimedia Foundation’s first Global South project that began in India in 2011. My work…
The more I learn about OpenStack, the more I see why there is so much buzz about the technology as well as about the community of developers and users. In a poll hosted on…
Deb Cinkus is the CEO of Polished Geek, a Raleigh, NC-based Joomla CMS web development company. Opensource.com community manager Jason Hibbets interviewed Cinkus about project…