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How my two-week project turned into a full time open source startup

Learn how a small project to automate a web developer's invoicing process morphed into a full-...

14 Aug 2017 Shar Darafsheh Feed 19 votes 1 comment

4 open source tools that got my startup off the ground

When I started my first company, money was tight. We had a small office and a couple of computers,...

11 Aug 2017 Peter Ellington Feed 29 votes

A list of open source tools for college

Find out what hardware and software this university students uses every day for programming and web...

02 Jun 2017 Aaron Cocker Feed 38 votes 3 comments

How I became a webcomic artist in less than a month with open source tools

Learn how this artist produces her comic from beginning to end, using free and open source tools.

24 Apr 2017 Roxanne Ritzke Feed 46 votes 3 comments

6 open source tools I use on my Windows machine

These are Jimmy's six favorite open source applications that he immediately installs on a new...

22 Feb 2017 Jimmy Sjölund Feed 108 votes 26 comments

How I became a project team leader in open source

Read this open source story of how a contributor became a team leader through hard work and good...

10 Feb 2017 Lana Brindley Feed 47 votes

Using Blender and Python to 3D print a dress

During the opening ceremony at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio, snowboarder Amy Purdy wearing a 3D...

19 Dec 2016 Richard Colburn Feed 127 votes 3 comments

How Minecraft got me involved in the open source community

Editor-in-chief of Fedora Magazine shares how he got involved with the open source community.

10 Oct 2016 Justin W. Flory Feed 70 votes 2 comments

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