Ruth Suehle

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Raleigh, NC

Ruth Suehle is the community leadership manager for Red Hat's Open Source and Standards team. She's co-author of Raspberry Pi Hacks (O'Reilly, December 2013) and a senior editor at GeekMom, a site for those who find their joy in both geekery and parenting. She's a maker at heart who is often behind a sewing machine creating costumes, rolling fondant for an excessively large cake, or looking for the next great DIY project.

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Authored Content

Facebook: The privacy saga continues

Even if you'd never heard of Facebook before this week (unlikely as that may seem to most of our readers), it's tough to avoid now. The privacy fiasco has even hit the cover…

Facebook: Privacy, the exodus, and Diaspora

If you're like me, it seems like every time you log into Facebook, you see another message or two from friends deleting their accounts. Then you check Twitter, and there's yet…

Steve Jobs on Flash (or the lack thereof) and more talk about tablets

If the comments to my previous iPad posts ( here and here) are any indication, there is no shortage of open source options for tablets. So I've rounded up the ones you've…

Are there really open source iPad alternatives? A follow-up.

The comments here and elsewhere to my post about iPad alternatives have been mixed. No surprise. There will always be Apple defenders and open source defenders. Still, I'd…

Five open source alternatives to the iPad

Interest in iPad app development is waning, and the device just got here. Maybe that means it's time to explore more open options. Here are five. Neofonie WePad A bit bigger…

Introduction to Document Freedom Day

This year on March 31, along with more than 200 groups in 60 countries, we will observe the third Document Freedom Day. This grassroots effort aims to educate the public about…

Authored Comments

suehle

21 May 2010

Facebook: The privacy saga continues

I am curious how many people total are leaving and have left since all this started. I think this might need to be a poll on the site.

suehle

29 Apr 2010

Steve Jobs on Flash (or the lack thereof) and more talk about tablets

No question--openness is a spectrum, not a checkbox. The ultimate open tablet (or any device) would have both fully open hardware and software. As <a href="http://makezine.com/04/ownyourown/">Make:</a> says, "If you can't open it, you don't own it."