JQooBe is a platform that allows users to create simple blogs, websites, and advanced applications within a community. It is developed in PHP, Ajax, and MySQL. I talked with…
Concerns are raised every once in a while in the broader free and open source software community about freeloaders. The attitude expressed is that if you're getting the…
At opensource.com, we often talk about ways to build and nourish communities. But sometimes what you do right is less important than what you’re doing wrong. We dug through…
Community is vital to an open source project. An active and supportive community is the heart of the project. However, having an open source licence is not enough to bring…
Open source has helped shape the team at PushAgency.io into the programmers and developers we are today. We’ve used it throughout our educations and careers, and now…
For Community Manager Appreciation Day 2015, I wanted to do something special to thank many of the hard working community managers involved in the open source ecosystem. Last…
The other side of community involvement in an open source project is the end users. It's hard to be a successful open source project if no one is using it! But aside from…
Open source has come a long way in the past 30 years and is entering the consciousness of most modern cultures. When thinking of open source projects, people categorize them…
Welcome back folks, for the second post in my Six Degrees column. While I am delighted to be returning, you all kinda screwed me with my first column. The article, in which I…
One of my software developer friends recently asked me if I could show him what he could do personally to encourage a more collaborative and understanding working environment…
Eric Raymond's How to Ask Questions the Smart Way was published in 2001 and has been very popular ever since. It gets referenced on my local Linux User Group mailing list with…