David Boswell has a couple of interesting posts ( here and here) about how he is using metrics to measure how effective Mozilla is at attracting and engaging people who…
In comparing traits associated with design thinking collaboration and collaboration in the open source community, there are many parallels: open exchange, broad participation…
I presented “Creating online community the open source way” at the Triangle Drupal Users Group (TriDUG) on the evening of Thursday, July 22 and thought it would be a good idea…
I’m always looking for interesting new communities to highlight here on opensource.com. Over the past year, I’ve covered everything from Wikipedia to OpenIDEO to The White…
The project was called Kind of Bloop. An 8-bit tribute to the Miles Davis masterpiece “ Kind of Blue”. Yes, the same sound you remember from first-generation Nintendo games…
I’ve been using Drupal, an open source content management system (CMS), for the websites I manage for over four years now. Though there may be some quirks in working with an…
As a woman in open source, I have found that the values of community, open development, and flat organizational structure appeal equally to both men and women. The ability of…
I have told the story of how FinTP, the first open source application for processing financial transactions, was born. Here, I would like to present a deeper view on how the…
The OSS Watch blog has been on our radar for a while now as a great resource for open source commentary. We've looked to their team, including development manager Mark Johnson…
Coraline Ehmke has developed apps for the web for 20 years. In that time, she's learned a lot about open source culture and what makes a community of contributors tick. At the…
Open source is the combined contributions of millions of independent volunteers. This single concept brings with it a few inherent realities. In this article let's look at a…
Scott Wilson agrees that open source matters because of open code, but just as important is the process in which the code is made. Open development of code is in the social…