The Programming Industry: Not a Woman’s World – Yet
Rupa Dachere (@rdachere), Founder and President of CodeChix, and I had a chance to talk programming and open source community culture at OSCON 2013. She brings up some great points about the specific...
View ArticleWho will upgrade the telecom foundation of the Internet?
Although readers of this blog know quite well the role that the Internet can play in our lives, we may forget that its most promising contributions — telemedicine, the smart electrical grid, distance...
View ArticleCPAN’s social continuity of code
I contribute heavily in the Perl community, and I’m consistently impressed by the pains we take with code and assets that we personally have no interest in. There’s a group of Perl people who shepherd...
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The book sprint
Do you really want a technical book for your project? Does your community need to provide more helpful docs to support even more users? Does your community have a lot of knowledge they need to get out...
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Open teaching stacks help us teach at scale
Elliott Hauser is CEO of Trinket, a startup focused on creating open sourced teaching materials. He is also a Python instructor at UNC Chapel Hill. Well-developed tools for teaching are crucial to the...
View ArticleFour short links: 14 July 2014
Handheld Scanners Attack — shipping and logistics operations compromised by handheld scanners running malware-infested Windows XP. Adventures in Cognitive Biases (MIT) — web adventure to build your...
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Jeremy Rifkin unveils a return to the local in an interconnected future
Stratasys’ Education, R&D departments and MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab are researching 4D printing — manufacturing one-off objects that can change their shapes or other physical characteristics in...
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Measure your open source community’s age to keep it healthy
To really grasp a free/open source software project, you need to know how the community that develops and supports it is evolving. Attracting lots of new members will be a reason for celebrating...
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DevOps keeps it cool with ICE
Over the next five years, three ideas will be central to DevOps: the need for the DevOps community to become more Inclusive; the realization that increasing Complexity of systems is the underlying...
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#SocialCivics and the architecture of participation
It was big news recently that former Twitter executive Jason Goldman is joining the White House to head up a new office of Digital Strategy. In his post, Jason asked for advice, posted anywhere, using...
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