Every week, I tally the numbers and listen to the buzz to bring you the best of last week's open source news and stories on Opensource.com, this week September 29 - October 3, 2014.
Top 5 articles of the week
#5. Learn how to support women in open source
Joshua Holm gives readers a tangible way they can learn how to better support women in open source. We all know that women are underrepresented as developers in open source, but why does it matter and what can we do about it? The Ada Initiative gives us a lesson through their Ally Skills Workshop. Check out Joshua's article to watch the video or sign up for the course.
#4. Open source goes corporate at Samsung
Ben Pearson interviews Guy Martin, a Senior Strategist for the Open Source Group at Samsung. This article is part of our series interviewing speakers of the All Things Open conference prior to the event. The conference is in its second year and will be held again this year at the Raleigh Convention Center in North Carolina. Guy Martin tells us, in this interview, about his 4 year mission to establish open source leadership at Samsung to support the broad range of products they create that are built upon open source software.
#3. On the hunt for the right open source project?
Matt Micene was ready to jump into a new open source project and wrote this article as a guide for others when looking for the right open source project to join. Matt shares some websites and processes for how to access your skills and goals, including what role to consider your day job might play in the decision. Next, Matt will follow up with his pick of a few open source projects that might be a good fit for him, ending with the one he chooses.
#2. Facebook has over 200 open source projects on GitHub
Nitish Tiwari interviews James Pearce, Head of Open Source at Facebook, for our All Things Open speaker interview series this week. There's a lot of open source going on over at Facebook you may not have known about, like their portfolio of over 200 open source projects on GitHub. James also understands what it takes to be a vital part of a healthy open source community. Find out how this social media giant does it, and what he'll share at the conference this year, in this exclusive interview.
#1. This is what system administration in the open looks like
Jason Baker, Opensource.com's OpenStack aficionado, interviews Elizabeth Joseph, an Automation and Tools Engineer at HP. Elizabeth tells us what it's like to be a sysadmin working in the open on the OpenStack Infrastructure team. Her team is a group of remote systems administrators that do all of their work online, in the open, while running a totally open source infrastructure built for OpenStack development... so yeah, kinda awesome. At the All Things Open conference on October 22, Elizabeth will talk more about their code review system and how they safetly get contributions from across the OpenStack community.
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