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

The Open Organization book club: Embracing friction

Igniting anything— including passion and performance—always requires a few sparks. And making sparks requires friction. Unfortunately (as Rebecca Fernandez said last week of…

An open source celebration of one whimsical video game

Writers, critics, and video gaming fans alike have spilled copious digital ink attempting to articulate what makes Shigesato Itoi's EarthBound (known in Japan as Mother 2, the…

When everything's a request for comments

The Internet's foundational documents are called "requests for comments" or "RFCs." Published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the organization whose stated goal…

For UNC scientists, open source is the way forward

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva—more commonly called stone man's syndrome—is the result of a rare mutation, an anomaly in the way certain enzymes called kinases spur…

Introducing the Open Organization FAQ

Being an engaged leader, says Jim Whitehurst in The Open Organization, means answering questions. It means fielding inquiries about strategies and plans. It means putting…

What is open science?

In his autobiography, Just for Fun, Linux creator Linus Torvalds argues that the open source process tends to mirror the scientific enterprise. "Science was originally viewed…

Authored Comments

bbehrens

10 Apr 2018

Tell us what to include in the next great leadership book

Got 'em, Jim, and love 'em. Looking forward to chatting more.

bbehrens

26 Mar 2018

Start a blog in 30 minutes with Hugo, a static site generator written in Go

I have been interested in Hugo for some time now, but I've never been able to engage with it properly because I've never found a tutorial as helpful as yours. Thanks very much for writing this.