News: A handbook for the open source way, written the open source way

Community. This little nine-letter word is the lifeblood of open source. Barely a day goes by without some aspect of it impacting our lives, be that via Linux, a local book club, your closest group of friends or any one of a million other places. In an age when anyone over 45 seems to have stories about the end of local communities, the open source community is thriving.

SOS Open Source is an automated methodology to qualify and select open source software that uses data from directories, forges and meta-forges and creates comprehensive information.

When it comes to defining open source, licensing is a critical topic since it's the license that helps to make an application or effort open. But for Michael Tiemann, president of the Open Source Initiative, it's not necessarily the only key success factor for open source projects.I have come to b ...

With tight budgets ahead as far as the eye can see, NASA is increasingly looking toward open source technology and the help of a volunteer community to help out. The U.S. space agency hosted its first Open Source Summit this week to reach out to the open source community and explain its often confusing and incompatible open source license....

eSecurityPlanet.com covers the Red Hat Summit in Boston where Red Hat explained why open source is the best model for building secure software: "Being open and transparent is a powerful motivator to write quality software and to fix the inevitable bugs that arise, but

For those of us that have worked for years in open source, rumors in the press of IBM “breaking its open source patent pledge” were met with a bit of dismay. IBM is one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel and dozens of critical open source projects. For more than a decade IBM has been a good citizen in the open source community.

So, does your company do open source? Really? I'm not talking about using open source. I'm asking if your company takes open source philosophy to heart by walking the walk. I doubt there's any decent- sized company that doesn't use open source. But how many do open source in a business setting? Does your company *do* open source, like, within?

We (the open source community) have been saying that for far too long for anyone to even bother taking the statement seriously. Instead, I thought I would create some interesting open source headlines I would love to see in the coming year.more ...

I have many friends who are interested in finding work as professional translators. It occurred to me that they could get some useful volunteer experience by translating Open Source software and documentation.

Most are CS students. They like computers, but Linux is unknown to them. All are fairly fluent in at least 2 languages.