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

What Docker 1.0 means for OpenStack

At the sold-out DockerCon on Monday and Tuesday of this week, there were plenty of big announcements. But the biggest of which was Docker going 1.0. Whether or not it now…

The ideal OpenStack developer, OpenDaylight project grows, and more

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The world's largest makerspace, boosting open security, and more

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Five new how-to guides for mastering OpenStack

While the official documentation for OpenStack is a fantastic resource that's growing every day, sometimes all you're looking for is a single-purpose guide to walk you through…

Cloud storage considerations, OpenStack Summit in review, and more

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Marketing openness: Does sharing have a stigma?

Using personas to better define OpenStack users

When you think of the many virtues of OpenStack, and enterprise virtualization in general, user experience may not be the first thing that pops into your head. But maybe it…

Authored Comments

Jason B

12 Jan 2015

Top 10 FOSS legal developments of 2014

I missed the news about the SCO/IBM decision. Thanks for pointing it out!

For anyone else interested, the full (two page) ruling is on Groklaw: http://groklaw.net/pdf4/IBM-1132.pdf

Jason B

10 Dec 2014

Hour of Code aims for 100 million students this year

I was finally inspired to try out CodeCombat. It was pretty cool! Very well polished, even more so than I expected. Definitely something I'm going to start recommending for folks, especially on the younger side, who are new to coding and want to learn more. And I'm glad it teaches commonly used languages like Python and JavaScript so that players who learn the syntax can immediately apply their skills in the real world.