A decade of good books It's 2004. Google files its IPO. A group of undergrads launch something called "The Facebook" at Harvard University. Apple's most popular pocket i-thing…
The R programming language is used for data visualization and expermiental analysis for the likes of Facebook and has a rapidly growing user base of more than two million…
In part one of my series on using open source in research, I looked at LibreOffice, LaTeX, and two packages to use in psychology experiments. In this article, I show you…
Welcome to the third installment of my monthly column, where I explore how open source software and the open source way are used in the digital humanities. Every month I take…
Machine learning and data analysis are two areas where open source has become almost the de facto license for innovative new tools. Both the Python and R languages have…
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In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Yahoo releasing software for deep learning, the Linux Foundation picking up RethinkDB, and more. Open source…
Applications running in Linux containers are isolated within a single copy of the operating system running on a physical server. This approach stands in contrast to hypervisor…
In this week's Top 5, I highlight dropping GPL license usage, sample data for apps with the tool Elizabeth, a tale of a brief career in open source, a muscian's journey from…
The moment the open source RepRap 3D printer was created, its potential for helping the developing the world was evident. The distributed digital production of open source…
The year 2016 resulted in several important developments that affect the FOSS ecosystem. While they are not strictly "legal developments" they are important for the community…
This is a manifesto that any private organization can use to frame their collaboration transformation. Take a read and let me know what you think. I presented a talk at the…