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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Organizations coming together like a puzzle

How to govern a project on the scale of OpenStack

How an open source project is governed can matter just as much as the features it supports, the speed at which it runs, or the code that underlies it. Some open source…

Why open infrastructure matters in the cloud

When reading a recent article by Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, I was struck by a comparison made between OpenStack and the interstate highway system. The article in Wall Street…

Crowdfunding an open source laptop, a new Apache project, and more

Open source news for your reading pleasure March 29 - April 4, 2014 In this week's edition of the open source news roundup, we look at the end of Ubuntu One, a totally-open…

Storing data in the cloud with GlusterFS and OpenStack Swift

Udo Seidel is no stranger to dealing with enormous file stores. Udo is Section Manager for Linux Strategy and Server Automation at Amadeus Data Processing GmbH and will be…

Ten sessions you don't want to miss at OpenStack Summit

The OpenStack Summit is coming up in Atlanta, May 12-16, and after much anticipation the agenda for the conference finally became available last week. As we covered previously…

Open source hardware takes flight

This past Friday, we celebrated our Open Hardware Week here at Opensource.com with a staff open hardware workshop. Among the many fun things ranging from 3D printing to…

Authored Comments

Jason B

3 Jul 2014

Mozilla's Rust programming language at critical stage

Interesting! And it looks like Rust 0.11 just came out yesterday: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-July/010655.html

Jason B

1 Jul 2014

3 open source tools to make your presentations pop

I'm a big fan of Reveal.js, but certainly interested in exploring what the other options are out there (including those in this excellent article!). Also worth poking around with is the Google I/O presentation template, which is under an Apache 2.0 license.