On Jan 21, 2008, Marie Smith Jones died. Her death was not just a loss of one human being, she was the last speaker of the Eyak language. Eyak was spoken in southern, central…
Whether you went to college or you didn't. Whether you interned at the company where you work now or started out in a completely different field. For many an important and…
I came back from OSCON this year with a new fire to contribute to an open source project. I’ve been involved in open source for years, but lately I've been more of an…
A simple “thank you” can go a long way. I believe in building a culture of collaboration and transparency within the IT organization I serve because it gives everyone the…
There is a small place in New York city, appropriately called Smalls Jazz Club, where musicians of all ages gather every evening to play the music they love. During these…
In 490 BC the Greek army defeated the first Persian invasion at the battle of Marathon. Legend says that the courier Pheidippides was dispatched to deliver the news of the…
You may not have noticed, but people often become attached to their favorite technology. This could be a mobile phone, a programming language, or a text editor. When you work…
In a previous post, I gave 5 reasons wikis rock for documentation. It was a great deceit. In truth, I'm not a big fan of wikis in most cases. So today I present 5 reasons to…
Priyanka Nag is a technical writer for Red Hat and Mozilla Rep from India. Priyanka has been contributing to open source projects for the past four years. She started by…
As the Seattle GNU/Linux conference enters its third year, we decided we could do more to highlight the amazing community in Cascadia (a region on the west coast of North…
Recently the LibreOffice project released version 5.0 of their cross-platform office suite. The new release brings together a raft of features for a comprehensive office suite…
Over the past few weeks, I've shared some thoughts about several of the most common branding issues we see in our work with open source companies at New Kind. I've covered how…