Although Open Source 101 (which will be held for the first time in Charlotte, North Carolina on Thursday March 23) targets those new to open source, veteran open sourcers can find benefits from attending, too.
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Christine Hall has been a journalist since 1971. In 2001, she began writing a weekly consumer computer column and started covering Linux and FOSS in 2002 after making the switch to GNU/Linux. Follow her on Twitter: @BrideOfLinux
Basil Cousins, the co-founder and director of OpenForum Europe has died after a long illness.
If this is March, it must be election time at OSI. This year, two individual seats and one affiliate seat are in the running.
Here's a dozen reasons, in the form of a dozen items that are on this year's schedule, to go to this year's SCALE, which starts Thursday in Pasadena, California.
Nextcloud announced on Wednesday that it now has a SharePoint replacement ready for production use, and that Deutsche Telekom has made Nextcloud Office available to the users of MagentaCLOUD.
At an online media event held in early February, Red Hat's former CEO talked about investing, open source, open governance, and of course, Red Hat.
With the generation that founded the free software and FOSS movements rapidly aging, the push is on by FOSSDA to collect open sources oral history, straight from the mouths that made it.
In January, FOSS Force's Christine Hall was the guest on Doc Searls' FLOSS Weekly podcast. Here's what she learned from that appearance.
There are something like 300 Linux distributions. Thankfully, the list of Linux desktop environments is much shorter, but there are still plenty.
Somebody should make a movie of this story, with Red Hat as the damsel who finds her power, and Oracle cast as the volatile leading…