The open source technology behind Twitter
Without open source, Twitter wouldn't exist. Every Tweet you send and receive touches open source software on its journey between computers and mobile devices. We were curious about how much open...
View ArticleThe new software hygiene: Declare a license or risk losing participation
I had the privilege of working with David Tilbrook almost 25 years ago. He was the first person with whom I ever worked that clearly articulated proper software construction discipline for...
View ArticleCTO Park: Doing business with the Federal government should be EZ
U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park and Director of New Media for the White House Macon Phillips held a roundtable at North Carolina Central University's School of Law last week to discuss open...
View ArticleClay Shirky on how the Internet will one day transform government
Clay Shirky has done it again. In a fascinating TED Talk, Shirky examines the impact that collaboration tools developed for and by open source communities will have on the way citizens participate in...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi team announces open source ARM userland
Today we have some really big news, which is going to mean a lot to many programmers in our community who have been asking about it ever since launch. This is one of those announcements that has been...
View ArticleA code hosting comparison for open source projects
If you're starting a new open source project, or open sourcing some existing code, you'll need a publicly accessible location for the version control system holding your code (if you're not planning on...
View ArticleOpen source culture: Do you vote with your code or participation?
CTO of Getable, Mikeal Rogers, talks open source and the Github generation. What's the next big thing on the innovation horizon? And who's leading the charge? Find out in this interview.Open source is...
View ArticleA preview for POSSCON 2013
Members from the open source world will gather in Columbia, South Carolina for the Palmetto Open Source Conference (POSSCON) on March 27-28, 2013.For anyone looking to score a last minute ticket, the...
View ArticleDefault to open data: an Executive Order
Last week, The White House published an Executive Order by which the default method for government data collection and dissemination must now be:read more
View ArticleWhich repository do you use?
Which repository is your primary choice? SourceForge GitHub Google Code Gitorious Bitbucket Codeplex OtherFrom James Bowes' article, A code hosting comparison for open source projects:read more
View ArticleCivic coding strengthens open source skills
I’ve been thinking a bit too much lately about GitHub and Drupal.org. More broadly, I’ve had my mind on open source + community. Sometimes this is called social coding.Social coding can take on a...
View ArticleOpen source project management on the rise
Frank Bergmann, founder of ]project-open[, talks with us about the integrated open source software stack. He says maintaining communication is essential, and it entails complete transparency.The...
View ArticlePost open source software, licensing and GitHub
Few would deny that the rise of GitHub as a popular hosting service for software projects is one of the most significant developments to affect open source during the past five years. GitHub's...
View Articlechoosealicense.com and GitHub's license picker
In a previous article, I discussed the complaints that have been leveled against GitHub during the past year and a half concerning the purported problem of public, seemingly-FLOSS code repositories...
View ArticleOpen source hardware holds the same promise as software
This article is part of an interview series highlighting the speakers of the upcoming All Things Open 2013 conference in Raleigh, NCI see SparkFun Electronics mentioned often in my social media stream,...
View ArticleCoursefork: a new way to collaborate on open education
What if teachers could fork educational materials just like software developers fork code? Imagine if educators far and wide could collaborate on curriculums beyond their school, district, or...
View ArticleFrom the web developer's toolkit: building an open source image placeholder
Image placeholder services are useful tools for web app developers. They serve the singular purpose of marking the location of a future image within a design or layout. Spaces that will eventually be...
View ArticleVideo interview with GitHub co-founder Scott Chacon on a future beyond code
GitHub has become the de facto repository for open source projects. So, we were excited for the opportunity to sit down with GitHub's co-founder and CIO Scott Chacon during the All Things Open...
View ArticleWhat GitHub is doing for women developers, Tim O'Reilly speaks on open data,...
Open source news for your reading pleasure.January 13-17, 2014In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, you'll learn about some new partnerships that could lead to some new open source...
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