The first task any accomplished technical writer has to do is write for the audience. This task may sound simple, but when I thought about people living all over the world, I…
Where do the developers in my FOSS community live? For large open source communities where personal contact with developers is impossible, answering this simple question may…
If you attend LISA15 in Washington D.C. this month, you'll want to catch James Mickens' closing keynote, It Was Never Going to Work, So Let’s Have Some Tea . James Mickens has…
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 met Alison Chaiken at LinuxCon 2010 in Boston, not long after she joined Nokia as a Meego technical consultant. A few months later, I interviewed her about her role at Nokia…
With so much going on in OpenStack , the open source cloud computing project, it can be difficult to keep track of what's new and to learn how to use it. Fortunately, there…
