Benjamin Kerensa

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Portland, OR

Benjamin Kerensa is an internationally recognized open source evangelist, community manager, author and speaker with experience in systems administration, project management and open source development that spans a decade.

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Free culture in an expensive world

Open Source Bridge is coming up on June 21 in Portland, and you can catch the commotion ramping up on Twitter. In this interview I talk with Shauna Gordon-McKeon about her…

Flow is a mental state of intense focus for programming

Open Source Bridge is an annual conference focused on building open source community and citizenship through four days of technical talks, hacking sessions, and collaboration…

Bringing Mozilla to the IoT era

Open Source Bridge is an annual conference focused on building open source community and citizenship through four days of technical talks, hacking sessions, and collaboration…

Open Source Bridge attracts unique speakers and attendees

Next month, Open Source Bridge is kicking off its 8th year in Portland, Oregon from June 21-24, 2016. The Open Source Bridge conference focuses on topics surrounding building…

The young Vivaldi browser is taking its cues from the community

Vivaldi is a rather new browser, powered by libraries from more than 100 different open source projects, and growing in popularity. I interviewed Ruarí Ødegaard of Vivaldi…

Closed silo challenges to an open web

The growing trend of closed content silos—publishing platforms that require a login in order to view the content—is a step away from a more open web. As this trend continues…

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bkerensa

14 Jul 2016

8 ways to get your swag on

10. Make only quality swag

Nobody likes cheap stickers or low capacity thumb drives or other junk being passed
off as swag. The extra investment per unit will ensure the swag last longer which
in turn is good brand marketing but also make the person you send it to feel better.

bkerensa

2 Feb 2016

Announcing the 2016 Opensource.com Community Awards winners

Congratulations to all!