Where does the time go? I feel like I just sat down to write the August preview for you, dear reader. Here we are in September, and I'm excited about the great things in store…
Learning is easier with a community of practice. For some in the open source world, community is something that takes only a virtual form, but there's still a lot of value in…
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…
Meet David Both. He's a regular contributor to Opensource.com, most notable for his Linux philosophy series. There's so much goodness in this Q&A, including a long list of…
In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the new Raspberry Pi compute module, the FSF's 2017 priorities, a new open data portal, and more…
(This post is the third in the "Voices of POSSE" series, a collection of interviews conducted at this year's Professors' Open Source Summer Experience, held in Raleigh, NC on…
In June 2016, I wrote about the MQA proprietary closed-source music encoding system and shared my thoughts on why I felt the system is not a good thing. Since then, I've been…
The Apache Software Foundation is excited to invite you to ApacheCon North America, which we'll be holding in Austin, Texas, April 13th - 16th. TL;DR: Register today! This…
2017 Opensource.com Back to School 3D Printer Sweepstakes Official Rules NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR TO WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR ODDS OF WINNING. VOID…
Documentation can either focus on describing product features and the way they can be used, or it can start with identifying user needs and then explaining how to achieve…