Two well-known members of the free and open source software community have kicked off an initiative to promote women's participation in FOSS technology and culture.
It was almost exactly two years ago that Linux bloggers were bemoaning organizational FOSS users' tendency not to give back to the community, and now -- fast forward to 2011 -- here we are again, facing the same fact.
Kevin Carillo is doing a research that looks at how newcomers to a FOSS community become valued sustainable contributors and the influence of their experience as newcomers.
If you have been involved in Debian, GNOME, Gentoo, KDE, Mozilla, Ubuntu, NetBSD, or OpenSUSE FOSS communities within the last 3 years (after January 2010), you can help Kevin by taking part in the survey available her
Just because the FOSS community and FOSS business are allies doesn't mean that their interests are always identical.
The headline says "Why Code For Free", but it's really more complicated than that because there are many FOSS developers who are paid to work on FOSS projects. In this final part of our series, more developers speak on the rewards of being part of the FOSS community.
A few days ago The Dot received an invite for the KDE community to FOSS Nigeria.
Dot Categories: Community and EventsToday, KDE celebrated its 16th birthday. On October 14, 1996, Matthias Ettrich started KDE. Since then, amazing women have helped make KDE what it is today. Women like Anne-Marie Mahfouf, Eva Brucherseifer, Alexandra Leisse, Celeste Lyn Paul, Anne Wilson, Claire Lotion, Lydia Pintscher, Myriam Schweingruber, Claudia Rauch and many many more.
During a recent interview technology blog The Stop, OSS community member Tony Baechler raised the issue of...
Oracle's proprietary posture may have soiled the welcome mat and vilified its good standing in the FOSS community as CEO Larry Ellison pushes the balance point between servicing his customers and nickel-and-diming them to turn a higher profit.
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