Talking to developers and reading about open source I often get the feeling that the general notion is that open source is just about code and commits. Put another way, "If…
I have been working on the Apache http server for almost 20 years now. I've written 9 books about httpd, and spoken at more than fifty conferences. I'm a member of the Apache…
As a passionate open source advocate, I’m always looking for more ways to get more people involved. Of particular interest to me is getting more girls and women involved, so…
Open Source Careers A collection of articles about jobs and careers in open source. I'm joining DigitalOcean as a developer evangelist, where I'll work closely with the PHP…
The open source market landscape is growing by leaps and bounds, and it's at a time like this that it's important for Zimbra, a provider of collaboration software, to…
Dave Hakkens is the founder of Phonebloks, an initiative that supports and pursues the creation of modular hardware for cellular phones to reduce electronic waste (e-waste)…
Do you remember what it was like when you first started out in open source? I recently asked a group of developers to recount what it was like for them and what prompted them…
My two biggest dreams growing up were to be either a firefighter or a space explorer. Though I didn’t get to do either of those things, I satisfy the former via being a…
Access to high-quality human biospecimens such as blood, saliva, plasma, DNA, and RNA is integral to developing a better understanding of diseases and advancing molecular…
Too many of us who work with open source software in our daily lives think of ourselves as users, people who merely take advantage of open source tools without considering…
Enterprises learned an important lesson on their way to embracing open source software: they could benefit from work that came from outside of their own rosters of employees…
Open source communities have been paving the way for innovation for years, and recently they've been paving the way for diversity in the IT fields, too. For some women, the…