Recently while reading a tweet from the Blowing Things Up Lab, I learned about Emily Daub, a maker and college student who designed a running shirt that helps runners be more…
I'm a big believer in stories, less of a believer in rhetorical questions. It's taken me a while, but I've learned to avoid the question, " What is DevOps?" Engaging in that…
Openness has become the new standard for content and software across a variety of initiatives in higher education. Open source software, open education, open educational…
The continuing growth of massive and diverse data volumes, and the growth of data intensive applications, has presented a need to find effective means of data management…
Kids are back to school all over the globe! What better way to help them thrive and get the most out of school than with free and open education resources and tools…
August and September signal the end of summer vacation and a return to school day routines. Teachers and students across the country are preparing for another great academic…
Several years ago, when I was working on my Master's degree in Library Science, I took a course on Unix (Solaris) system administration. The course was supposed to involve…
Now entering its third year, the ROSE (Red Hat Open Source for Education) Project is a cross-community effort that brings students from Tira together with students from…
On your commute to work, the tiny supercomputer in your pocket sends a podcast to the computer in the dashboard of your car. Although you're not driving a flying car yet, we…
There's a lot of articles from community managers about how you can attract student volunteers to your open source project. This time, I'm going to write about the same thing…
The number of universities and schools that have opted for open source alternatives of popular properties solutions has significantly increased over the last years. We often…
How open source search and machine learning are driving insight into what’s important “What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important." —attributed…