Sleep is an essential part of human life, and parents quickly learn that lack of quality sleep (for themselves and their children) can lead to a whole host of other issues…
A few months ago, opensource.com ran a story on a textbook for college students learning programming ( Can Professors Teach Open Source?, Greg DeKoenigsberg, Apr 6 2010). The…
We spoke recently with Paolo Mangiafico, the Director of Digital Information Strategy in the Office of the Provost at Duke University, about Duke's open access initiatives…
There's one major advantage to openness in business. Like the Billy Joel song says, it's just a matter of trust. Harvard Business Review's Peter Merholz recently highlighted…
It's the leading open source learning management system in the world. It provides 100s of 1000s (millions?) of students and teachers, learners and educators a means of…
I was asked to explain why the introduction of open educational resources into the education ecosystem might in fact be one of the most important things that has happened to…
Open questions ask a question each week. The topics vary from technology to art to the food on your table. We ask a question. You leave a response. It's as simple as that…
The Blender Institute's sixth film project, codenamed Gooseberry, is in deep into the most open production from the Blender Institute yet. If you've been following the project…
For animators working with free and open source software, nothing compares to Blender . A fully-featured 3D animation suite, it offers a huge array of tools that individuals…
Last month we looked at digital cell animation with Krita. Cell animation is just one kind of animation, though, so this month we'll take a look at stop motion animation. As…
The spotlight is back on Drupal with the 8.0.0 release. The successful launch is a testament to the hard work put in by members of the Drupal community, but Drupal 7 still has…
Calling all data geeks and enthusiasts! Testing is now open on DocHive— get started on GitHub. DocHive is an open source Ruby on Rails project for capturing data from image…