I have enjoyed reading the stories others have shared about how they got started with open source software, so I thought I'd add mine. It is different in that I came to open…
The words I hear some clients ask when they first see my Linux set up is: " Is it that Unix thing?" If they know it well enough to ask that question, I'm usually on the verge…
Growing up with Windows, it seemed there was always something wrong with my family's computer. Our PCs didn't stay new for long. Yet, as annoying as it was to load each…
Before I discovered open source software in 2005, I had never touched a digital design package and probably couldn't have named one. In fact, I never believed myself to be…
Back in 2014, my colleague Crystal Beasley started a thread of women in tech/hackers posting their "nerd stories" in response to some comments out there on the Internet about…
I consider myself to be an Odia Wikimedian. I contribute Odia knowledge (the predominant language of the Indian state of Odisha) to many Wikimedia projects, like Wikipedia and…
The year was 1989. The city was Kampala, Uganda. In their infinite wisdom, my parents decided that instead of all the troublemaking I was getting into at home, they would send…
My open source story began during my first year of college when I joined Mozilla's Firefox Student Ambassadors (FSA) program. I was lurking in the #webmaker channel on Mozilla…
At first blush, the software Netflix open sourced on Monday seems like part of an elaborate joke. The company has made its storied Chaos Monkey—a software service that…
POSSCON, a technical conference, is just around the corner. Given the speaker lineup and talk topics, the event again promises to be one of the most interesting open tech and…
Daniel Pink published an interesting piece over the weekend in The Telegraph about Netflix's innovative corporate policy of not having a vacation policy. Meaning, employees…
Netflix shook up the video rental industry. Now your movies can be delivered to your mailbox or streamed instantly online. The company has used elements of the open source way…