Florian Effenberger is the Executive Director of the Document Foundation, the organization behind LibreOffice: a popular open source productivity suite. In this interview he discusses how LibreOffice separated itself from the OpenOffice community 10 years ago, and the importance branding played in achieving early success. More from Linux Voice
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The community forms the backbone of any open source project and it is vital to the success of any businesses that are involved. Often, disagreements over code can lead to personal attacks that shun people away from the community; this can cause major problems with the long term sustainability of the open source community. By […]
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OpenHere is a 3-day international festival being held in Dublin, Ireland on November 14-26. The festival will promote technologies that are disrupting and reshaping our economy such as 3D printing, cryptocurrencies, and digital sharing. The festival will bring together artists, researchers, engineers, and activists to discuss things like alternative economic models, open source ecology, and […]
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Mozilla is currently redesigning their logo and is looking to the community for help in the process. The primary goal is to create a logo that doesn’t rely on Adobe Illustrator specific masks so that anyone can open and edit the logo on the design software of their choice. The company chose to do this […]
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The second annual TOR challenge was recently wrapped up by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 1,635 new TOR relays were set up during this year’s challenge, a huge improvement over last year’s 549 new relays. The goal of this challenge is to improve the TOR network and make it more secure for anyone who uses it, […]
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The XPrize Foundation has announced a new challenge to create software that teaches children to read, write, and perform arithmetic without the need for a teacher. They are doing this as an effort to improve and augment our current education system and to reach the 250 million children around the world that don’t have basic […]
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Takoma Park Maryland Library uses Linux for 28 public stations running at the library. The library chose provider Userful, a company that specializes in multi-lingual Linux environments using Fedora. The library has spent considerable effort making the Linux experience feel similar to other traditional desktop environments, and users often aren’t even aware they are using […]
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According to Michael Parks, there are two types of people in open source communities, Tool-igans and Product Jocks. Tool-igans are people who are willing to dig deep into technology and build new infrastructure with whatever they can get their hands on. Product Jocks focus more on end-products and use a more broad understanding of technology […]
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In this article, Michel Bauwens outlines 10 areas where government can encourage open source development and the commons. Education Research Purchasing Patents Data Collaboration Commons Health Economy Systemic Change More from P2P Foundation
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Each open source community has a distinct, unique, and often strong culture that affects how that project progresses. Whenever a company or individual wants to work with an open source community it is important to understand how the culture of the community fits with their needs. Open source cultures cascade through related projects through the […]
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Education is typically built from 3 parts, 1) exposure to content, 2) learning the content, and 3) verifying the content has been learned. Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have drastically scaled up the ability to accomplish the first phase of learning, but so far little has been done for the other two. The industry is […]
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There are many ways for non-coders to get involved with open source projects. Most projects need things like bug reports, feature requests, testing, documentation, language translation, and promotion. Just about anyone can find a way to use their skills to the benefit of open source. More from OpenSource.com
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Docker: Taking a Look Through the Hype
I’ve spent the last couple of months working an internship for The Linux Foundation, doing research on new developments and adoption trends in the open source industry. If you have spent any amount of time reading about open source over the last year, you have probably heard about Docker; a lot of people are talking […]
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Growstuff is an open source project focused on building a crop database from crowdsourced, grower knowledge that helps others learn how to grow food in their area. The open food movement has been around for quite a long time and focuses on making the farm to table process for food more transparent so consumers can […]
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Florian Effenberger is the Executive Director of the Document Foundation, the organization behind LibreOffice: a popular open source productivity suite. In this interview he discusses how LibreOffice separated itself from the OpenOffice community 10 years ago, and the importance branding played in achieving early success. More from Linux Voice
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Mozilla has announced new funding via their Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program to support important open source projects. Ushahidi was the biggest benefactor of this program, receiving $194,000. Ushahidi is a platform for “crowdsourcing, monitoring, visualizing, and responding to reports from people caught up in political turmoil or subject to governmental or vigilante abuse.” […]
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The ToDo group has published a document that covers the tools for managing open source programs on GitHub. From the Readme: This guide provides details and scenarios for how to get your open source tool collection started, including information about the most important tools to use to track and manage your open source projects. Many […]
