The pool of people participating in open source communities still lacks diversity, but the good news is that many people, projects, and organizations are working to improve it…
2015 has been a great year for open source and Linux gaming. The number of Linux games continues to grow, and Steam Machines finally hit the market on November 10. So, with…
Many many interviews were conducted this year by writers and the staff of Opensource.com. Our goal when asking luminaries in the field of open source questions about their…
Wearable electronics have exploded in the past year. Countless small devices are now on the market for not only fitness tracking, but posture improvement, sunscreen reminders…
Facebook believes in the power of open source. When a community gathers to work on code, there are a host of benefits. Fresh eyes point out problems and we arrive at solutions…
Each year, I reflect on Opensource.com's top government stories of the year. I look for trends among our most popular stories. Stories about new tools and applications…
Hardware projects and the culture of makers in tech continued to grow by leaps and bounds in 2015. At Opensource.com, we published numerous articles about how to build, rig up…
One of the most common tasks in any company's open source department is evaluating internal software to see if it would be a good candidate to give back to the community. When…
From the beginning, Raspberry Pi has been all about education. The idea that a piece of hardware everyone could afford in the hands of students used to learn programming…
At last year's OSCON I was lucky enough to stumble across the ChickTech booth. I had heard of women in tech organizations before, but hadn't heard of ChickTech. When I asked…
This year at the Percona Live Data Performance Conference, I'll be discussing Vitess. Vitess is an open source storage platform for scaling MySQL databases, which is optimized…
They say you never forget your first. In my case it was 2008 and Lucidworks had just raised our Series A round and hired our first salesperson. I was asked to jump on a call…