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, M.S. Ed. in Educational Leadership, Linux system administrator.

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 Open education 100+ Contributions Club Contributor Club

Authored Content

2017 Open Source Yearbook arrives, a new tool for creating VR content, and more news

Take a quick look back at recent open source headlines.

SUNY math professor makes the case for free and open educational resources

David Usinski explains how OERs benefit students, instructors, educational institutions, and even course writers.

Getting started with the RStudio IDE

The R Project for statistical computing is a powerful way to analyze data, and the RStudio IDE makes it easy to use.

Toonz goes open source, Apple open sources CareKit, and more news

'Open source software' turns 20, new Firefox Quantum privacy features, and more news

We recap the biggest open source news of the past two weeks.

A introduction to creating documents in LaTeX

Refreshing old computers with Linux

A middle school's Tech Stewardship program is now an elective class for science and technology students.

How Linux got to be Linux: Test driving 1993-2003 distros

Behind the scenes with Pop!_OS Linux

Cassidy James Blaede, UX designer of System76's new version of Linux, shares information about the new OS.

Authored Comments

Don Watkins

24 Jun 2021

Linux package management with apt

Great article Chris. I'm a long time 'apt' user but I learned more from your article.

Don Watkins

23 Jun 2021

How I teach Python on the Raspberry Pi 400 at the public library

Great idea. I've used the BBC :Microbit in a prior Raspberry PI and coding class that held in August 2019. I'd like to incorporate that again. I admire your work with HacDC.