Recently I returned to using a Linux desktop as my primary computing platform, and with that came LibreOffice as part of the default setup. I've been an OpenOffice user for…
This week— specifically, July 2—marks the mid-point of 2015. (How are those New Year's resolutions working out for you?) As of July 2, we will have published approximately 500…
I turn 70 on my next birthday, and it's well known that people my age aren't computerate, at least here in Australia. We have to be taught about email and web browsers and…
Happy Canada Day to our neighbors to the north! In honor of your special day, we've rounded up a list of Canadians in open source to follow on Twitter. Special thanks to my…
In June this year, a few open source projects expanded and several useful resources were published, along with many other developments in the digital humanities. I have…
At Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK), the world's oldest and largest private cancer center, our researchers and clinicians have pushed boundaries to generate new knowledge in…
Interested in keeping track of what's happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project…
I recently launched the Open Source Protocol (OS Protocol), a standard that can be used to link to where the code for a website is hosted. The protocol is fairly simple—all it…
Sprints are one of the most effective tools for building momentum and community around an open source documentation project. For the past four years, the Open Help Conference…
When I founded PrestaShop seven years ago, I had a singular vision for the company: to create a worldwide community of talented individuals fascinated by e-commerce. By…
In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at a million lines of code for Linux, more open source software from Google and Microsoft, a new tiny…
After more than 10 years in existence, the Indian-language Wikipedias still are not known to many Indian language speakers. Wikipedia became the largest encyclopedia in…
