As open source fans, we tend to spend a lot of time curled up in front of our computers. Many of us we work in front of computers during the day, and some of us even work on…
People are pretty incredible. The open source community is a great example of this: hundreds and thousands of people passionate about building new things, collaborating…
GitHub has become a fairly central part of many open source projects. Although many people focus on the code-hosting aspect of GitHub, the platform also includes comprehensive…
"Do I want to play with this open source thing?" This was the question most people asked 20 years ago when I started reviewing PostgreSQL bug fixes and assembling like-minded…
One of the strengths of the open source community has been its ability to bring concentrated effort to bear on big problems. When tragedy strikes, or a pressing need arises…
A version of this article originally appeared on the OpenMRS blog. The enormity and severity of the West African Ebola epidemic that began in 2014 is hard to fathom. The…
Nicholas Folk and Scott Buchanan co-authored this article. We are three students in the Bachelor of Computer Science second degree program at the University of British…
Much of the Internet runs Linux and open source software, yet in most of our schools—whether PK-12 or higher education—Linux and open source software are given short shrift…
If you need to take a survey or poll, for just about any reason, you've got a lot of choices. And if you only need to answer one or two questions, only one time, then offline…
A couple of years ago, when I started tinkering with long-form fiction writing, I attended some events for National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. Among the attendees…