Bryan Behrenshausen (he/him)

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Durham, NC

Bryan formerly managed the Open Organization section of Opensource.com, which features stories about the ways open values and principles are changing how we think about organizational culture and design. He's worked on Opensource.com since 2011. Find him online as semioticrobotic.

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Authored Content

Learning to program, the open source way

Kushal Das thinks he knows what you're doing this summer: joining him and his team of volunteers in free, online programming classes, where you'll learn more than just how to…

Like a good student, edX finishes open source project ahead of schedule

Good university students finish projects by their assigned deadlines. The best ones submit their finished work in advance. Earlier this month, edX–the non-profit education…

White House takes executive action to curb patent abuse

The White House on Tuesday announced a broad set of legislative recommendations for Congress and executive actions aimed at thwarting abusive patent infringement lawsuits. The…

Could California bill mandate open access to research?

Champions of open access to publicly funded academic research had something to celebrate last week. Creative Commons is reporting (with just a touch of cautious optimism) the…

A lesson from Tumblr: Who's in control?

It's no surprise that many Tumblr users are less than pleased with Yahoo!'s recent acquisition of their favorite personal publishing platform. The news is a sobering reminder…

Want to understand open source? Live with its developers

Let's say you want to understand what makes free and open source software (FOSS) so vital today—and what makes those who write it so committed to their difficult work. How…

Authored Comments

bbehrens

22 Mar 2017

Help us write the next IT culture book

Glad you found it, Jimmy! And doubly glad that we could connect via email. Looking forward to working with you, as always.

bbehrens

22 Feb 2017

What we (think we) know about meritocracies

Thanks for reading, Bruce. What part in particular do you think could be expanded more thoughtfully?

(Incidentally, my citing Michael Young was not meant as any kind of authoritative gesture, and I do try to make clear below that "meritocracy" comes to us from his fiction.)