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Celebrating sysadmins in the cloudy future

System administration can be a thankless job. To all of the tireless administrators out there who keep the systems we reply upon up and running, today is the day that we say…

(Alumni, Red Hat)
July 25, 2014

DefCore brings a definition to OpenStack

What's in a name? Quite a bit, actually. To ensure compatibility between products sharing the same name, it's important that users can expect a core set of features to be…

(Alumni, Red Hat)
July 16, 2014

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Awesome, thanks for sharing! I tried out the Natural Language Toolkit Python library at lunch for fun. I'm not enough of a word nerd to exactly what all of the parts of speech in its corpus mean, but I used your article as a base text to play around with. Looks like this article contains:

Nouns: 119
Prepositions: 98
Proper nouns: 83
Adjectives: 66
Plural nouns: 58
Commas: 57
Determiners: 49
Coordinating conjunctions: 34
Adverbs: 33
Personal pronouns: 32
Verbs in singular present: 31
Periods: 31
Verbs in gerund/present participle: 28
Base verbs: 26
The word to: 25
Possessive pronouns: 13
Verbs in past participle: 13
Verbs in singular present: 12
Particles: 8
Apostrophes: 8
Verbs in past tense: 7
Comparitive adjectives: 6
Which (determiners): 5
Modals: 4
Possessive endings: 3
Where/when adverbs: 3
Superlative adjectives: 3
Comparative adverbs: 2
Who/what pronouns: 1

Hey Patrick,

I *love* the story of Penn Manor, and it was such a treat to get to meet Charlie Reisinger at All Things Open here in Raleigh last year. The only reason its is not on my list is that I focused on things we covered here on Opensource.com in 2015. We've got lots of great stories from last year which covered the cool things happening at Penn Manor:

https://opensource.com/education/14/11/one-Linux-laptop-per-student-Pen…
https://opensource.com/education/14/9/open-source-high-school
https://opensource.com/education/14/9/interview-charlie-reisinger-penn-…
https://opensource.com/education/14/1/trust-your-students