This year at the Percona Live Data Performance Conference, I'll be discussing Tarantool. Tarantool is an open source Lua application server integrated with a database…
My Percona Live Data Performance Conference talk is called ActorDB: an alternative view of a distributed database. ActorDB is an open source database that was developed using…
This week we were excited to announce print editions of the 2015 Open Source Yearbook, which are available to order from Lulu: Open Source Yearbook 2015 paperback: US$ 4.87 (+…
One year ago this month, I published my first article on Opensource.com. I talked about our Astro Pi program in Students compete for a chance to have their Raspberry Pi code…
Szilvi Kádár, Daniella Kőrössy, and I are the organizers of Django Girls Budapest, a free workshop that teaches women how to code. We held our first Django Girls workshop in…
We're pleased to announce that the 2015 Open Source Yearbook is now available for download (PDF). What is the Open Source Yearbook? The open source label was created back in…
A post by Amanda McPherson, former CMO of the Linux Foundation, about her best interviewing tip got me thinking about an interview technique I was taught while on the GNOME…
Last month, D Ruth Bavousett wrote about creating sheet music with the Lilypond "music engraving program," and it got me thinking about MuseScore—which she also mentioned in…
This year at SxSW, I kicked things off by attending a great talk with the director of Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller. She had a conversation with Hugh Forrest, and started by…
The free and open source community has been having a lot of conversations about diversity, especially gender diversity, over the last few years. Although there is still plenty…
James Wallbank is a founder of one of the longest-running hackerspaces in the U.K. Access Space opened in the center of the northern industrial city of Sheffield in 2000 with…
In open source software, if you contribute enough patches to the code base, most projects will make you a committer. I guess I shouldn't be surprised then that when you write…