It's that time of year, again—the annual family reunion for many folks in the open source community, O'Reilly's Open Source Conference (OSCON). More than 3,000 people will…
At OSCON this year, Regina ten Bruggencate and Kim Spiritus gave a talk called How To Get More Kids To Code. I got in late (I was waiting in line to get a free signed copy of…
The year 2014 will be marked as one where open source changed for me. It didn't change overnight or even very rapidly, but in July I noticed that the open source of today was…
Reading some stories recently, it would be easy to conclude that there was some sort of a decline in open source. I'll not pretend to have new and objective data on the…
In 2006, the United Nations passed the Convention on the Rights of the Disabled. Now signed by over 160 countries, the Convention calls for disabled persons to be able to live…
Mapping communities in the open source space are growing as more and more people use maps for business and social change. Leaders like Aure Moser are providing spaces for…
At OSCON this year, Kara Sowles and Francesca Krihely gave an amazing workshop on how to plan and run tech events. So many tech events I've attended have looked completely…
On the third day of OSCON, I heard Facebook's James Pearce deliver one of the convention's many keynote presentations. Pearce explained how Facebook does open source at scale…
My first session at OSCON this year was hosted by Jono Bacon on community management. We've seen a remarkable growth in community all over the world—people are getting…
For my very first OSCON session this year, I got to attend the Community Management Workshop hosted by Jono Bacon. As an avid reader, the best part of this talk was the list…
Allison Randal of Hewlett-Packard began her keynote for OSCON 2015 with a quotation I'd never heard: "I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists simply to make…
At OSCON this year, Jared Smith of Bluehost spoke about how our companies can become good open source citizens. At ByWater Solutions, my job involves engaging in community…