Don Watkins (He/Him/His)

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Franklinville, New York

Educator, entrepreneur, open source advocate, life long learner, Python teacher. M.A. in Educational Psychology, MSED in Educational Leadership, Linux system administrator, Follow me at @Don_Watkins .

Open Source Star People's Choice Award Social Sharer Award 2014 Conversation Starter Award 2015 Best Interview Award 2016 Best Interview Award 2017 Moderator's Choice Award 2018 Moderator's Choice Award 2019 Author Comment Gardener Correspondent Open education 100+ Contributions Club Contributor Club

Authored Content

Woman programming

How Linux rescued precious audio files with FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a highly versatile tool that supports a range of popular formats like MP3, MP4, and AVI. You can also use it to convert files between different formats.

Working from home at a laptop

What's your favorite Mastodon app?

Mastodon is an open source social networking platform for microblogging. Here are my favorite Mastodon clients.

Daffodils in a field

9 resources about open source for educators and students

Open source helps educators, scholars, students, and lifelong learners explore new horizons.

Doodles of the word open

My favorite open source alternatives this year

Default to open in 2023 by swapping out Adobe Creative Suite, Office 365, Slack, and many more proprietary tools for open source applications.

Daffodils in a field

9 resources for educators and students

Open source helps educators, scholars, students, and lifelong learners explore new horizons.

How to write a web service using Python Flask

Learn Python: 7 of my favorite resources

Over the years, I've honed my Python skills thanks to these open source resources.

Contributed Content

summer reading

2019 Opensource.com summer reading list

13 books to inform and entertain you during the long, lazy days of summer.

Authored Comments

5 Apr 2023

How I learned the hard way to keep my website updated

Thanks David for a good reminder to keep Wordpress updated. I don't host my own site but just yesterday I did a security check on the site.

28 Feb 2023

My favorite open source tools for personal finance

Thank you for the suggestion. I'll have to take a look at it.