Education: Open source as an alternative 'study abroad' experience

Feb 07, 2011 GMT

Red Hat's Mel Chua searched under "why study abroad" and then tweaked the results to create this clever "why contribute to open source" article. Be sure to check out the Teaching Open Source site for more articles and resources on open source and education.

ROSE Blog Interviews: Barbara Irwin, Loads of Linux Links Maintainer

Feb 07, 2011 GMT

Recently I received an email from Barbara Irwin, a Linux user since 1997. After 30 years in the library business, Barbara retired about nine years ago. "After retiring, I was looking for a useful and interesting project in Linux and/or open source," she says. "As it happened, a neat project literally fell into my lap via my local LUG, which I had been participating in," she adds. The neat project is website called Loads of Linux Links. Barbara says that the database was started by a fellow VLUGer, who gave it up when his job required him to be overseas. Now Barbara maintains the site in her spare time. "The purpose of the Loads of Linux Links project is to...

Interviews: Anne Østergaard and Carla Schroder

Jan 27, 2011 GMT

The Fellowship of Free Software Foundation Europe site has an interesting interview with Anne Østergaard. According to the interview, Anne is a former Vice Chairman at GNOME, heavily involved in political lobbying, and fights for changes in software patents and copyright. "Until we have spread the fundamental freedoms of Free Software further there is little chance that we can make individuals understand the importance of being in control of your own life, and being the one to decide from case to case with whom you want to share information on matters you consider to be of a private nature," she says. Anne also discusses sharing private information on Facebook and the risk of...

Linux Training: Learn at your leisure

Jan 18, 2011 GMT

Jennifer Cloer sent me a link to a recent Linux.com story about Deborah Wazir, who says that her Linux skills helped her land a job. Deborah tells Jennifer, ""I bought some Linux-based magazines with Live CDs of various distros, bought a book on Ubuntu, borrowed an old laptop from my son, downloaded VMWare and Red Hat, and just started installing the OS. It was a lot of fun!"Deborah also says that she'll be taking advantage of Linux Foundation training courses this year. For those of you are are interested in passing the LPIC-1 exam or learning Monitoring with Nagios, check out our new online training options: http://academy.linux-magazine.com/And if you want to learn how...

Free Pass to SharePoint Technology Conference: Feb. 7-9

Jan 13, 2011 GMT

The 2011 SharePoint Technology Conference (SPTechCon) will be held February 7-9 in San Francisco, California. We have 2 Three-Day Full Event Passports to give away (valued at US$ 1,595 each). The passes include all workshops, sessions, meals, receptions and materials (airfare and/or lodging not included; non-transferable; no cash value; yadda yadda).If you would like to use one of these free passes to attend the SPTechCon 2011 event, please email me with the subject line "Free Pass to SPTechCon" and tell me why you would like to go to this event. Also, please let me know whether you'd be willing to write up a brief event report for us to use online or in Admin magazine.

ROSE Blog Interviews: Alison Chaiken, MeeGo Technical Consultant at Nokia

Jan 07, 2011 GMT

I met Alison Chaiken at LinuxCon 2010 in Boston, not long after she joined Nokia as a MeeGo Technical Consultant. If you want to learn How to induce your Fedora user process to drop core for debugging purposes, how to run PCBSD and MeeGo under qemu-kvm and qemu-gl, or learn about ubiquitous, pervasive computing; flexible displays and printed electronics; biomechanics and DNA melting; structural and electronic properties of indium selenide thin films; magnetism, giant magnetoresistance and exchange coupling and much more, then check out Alison's website: exerciseforthereader.org....

AndroidGals Seeks Contributors

Jan 07, 2011 GMT

In the latest issue of Linux Pro Magazine, I wrote about mobile app development startups and the new job opportunities around mobile technology. I also mentioned that we're accepting article proposals for our new magazine, Smart Developer. The AndroidGals website is also looking for contributors: WANTED: Females who have an opinion on Android! I certainly don't have time to contribute because I'm much too busy playing WordFeud with strangers on my HTC Incredible, but maybe you have more bandwidth than I do. (I also love my RunKeeper app and couldn't get anywhere without Google Maps on my phone.)Happy Androiding!