Jason B (He/Him/His)

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Jason was an Opensource.com staff member and Red Hatter from 2013 to 2022. This profile contains his work-related articles from that time. Other contributions can be found on his personal account.

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Authored Content

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The evolution of the database

This week in Santa Clara, Opensource.com is attending OpenStack Live, a two day conference with six hands-on tutorials and 18 sessions along with keynotes and panel…

OpenStack in the classroom, PTL voting begins, and more

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A community distribution of OpenStack

If you're interested in installing OpenStack, chances are you are going to want a little help. While it's entirely possible to get OpenStack up and running from the source…

An OpenStack code sprint, preparing for the Vancouver summit, and more

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Design the next OpenStack Tshirt, DefCore updates, and more

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Getting started guide, making your first OpenStack commit, and more

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Authored Comments

Jason B

1 Dec 2015

8 projects with LEGO: plastic bricks meet open source

Awesome, thanks for sharing! I'll definitely have to check that out.

Jason B

30 Nov 2015

5 open source alternatives to Slack for team chat

The cost factor is definitely an important point, although using "free" public infrastructure also has its own costs. For example, at this particular moment, Freenode is down because of a DDoS attack.