Jen Wike Huger

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Raleigh, NC

Jen leads a team of community managers for the Digital Communities team at Red Hat. She lives in Raleigh with her husband and daughters, June and Jewel.

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Authored Content

18 interviews with speakers of upcoming OSCON 2014

The O'Reilly Open Source Convention—or OSCON, as it's popularly known—is one of the world's premier open source events. For more than a decade, open-minded developers…

Open source to make caring for your health feel wonderful

Juhan Sonin wants to influence the world from protein, to policy, to pixel. And, he believes the only way to do that is with open source principles guiding the way. Juhan is…

Girls' skills are needed in tech

ChickTech is based in Portland but plans to be nationwide by 2016. After interviewing Jennifer Davidson about how ChickTech gets girls involved in tech, I have high hopes it's…

From zero to Spark Core in two years

Spark is a company inspired by Zach Supalla's deaf father. "My dad has lights in his house that flash when someone rings the doorbell. I wanted to make lights that would flash…

Big data influencer on how R is paving the way

The R programming language is used for data visualization and expermiental analysis for the likes of Facebook and has a rapidly growing user base of more than two million…

Free software for healthcare facilities in need

I wrote about the mission of GNU Solidario, the non-profit behind GNU Health, last year and interviewed the head of the project, Luis Falcon, about their plans and progress…

Authored Comments

Jen Wike Huger

6 Nov 2012

Open source provides schools with low-cost, high quality software

"Joonas Mäkinen explains that he helped organize a team to write a secondary school mathematics textbook over a weekend, in an event called Oppikirjamaraton (“textbook marathon”). The book was to be licensed CC BY, so that anyone could reuse or remix it in Finland or around the world."

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34643

Jen Wike Huger

23 Oct 2012

Lightworks for Linux: The developer's story

Lightworks is a high-end non-linear video editor. We apologize for not including more information about that before, please read here for further insight from Michael Larabel at Phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEyMjE.