Using OpenStreetMap to respond to disasters before they happen
Kate Chapman, executive director of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, gave Tuesday's keynote at Linux.conf.au about preparing and responding for disasters with the help of communities.read more
View ArticleFree Software Foundation to offer seminar on GPL enforcement and legal ethics
The Free Software Foundation will be providing a half-day legal seminar titled "GPL Enforcement and Legal Ethics", taking place on Monday, March 24 at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. Anyone...
View ArticleTen 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, the agenda was...
View ArticleGamers, makers, and sci-fi fans unite! at Penguicon 2014
As someone who makes it to about 20 events a year between open source conferences and science-fiction/fandom-type events, I feel qualified to describe Penguicon as a relatively unique event among its...
View ArticleThe open source culture of freedom and responsibility at Netflix
His adventure started in college with Slackware, lead him to Sendmail, then eventually to Reddit, and now his career is streaming at Netflix. Jeremy Edberg is a Reliability Architect at Netflix and...
View ArticleLinuxCon North America 2014 comes to Chicago
More than 100 sessions ranging from simple tutorials and workshops to deep technical dives and everything in between.More than 1000 attendees to collaborate with, an opportunity to network with thought...
View ArticleEmbedded tech and use of Linux at the 2014 GPU Technology Conference
This year I attended my first GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California (it took place the week after the Game Developers Conference). Hosted by NVIDIA, the event featured a range of talks from...
View ArticleThe Opensource.com guide to OpenStack Summit
OpenStack Summit is just around the corner, taking place May 12 - 16 in Atlanta, Georgia! Opensource.com is excited to be providing coverage of what's new in the ecosystem of the open source cloud....
View ArticleHero of open web calls techies to action
Lawrence Lessig will receive a Lifetime Achievement Webby Award for co-founding Creative Commons and "standing up for collaboration." This year also marks the 25th anniversary of the Web, making the...
View Article10 exciting reactions from OpenStack Summit Atlanta
There’s something different about OpenStack Summit Atlanta. Maybe it’s the attendance, the new arrivals, the latest projects, the announcements, the talks, or the community coming together. Really,...
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