Rikki Endsley

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Raleigh, NC

Rikki Endsley is the Developer Program managing editor at Red Hat, and a former community architect and editor for Opensource.com. In the past, she worked as the community evangelist on the Open Source and Standards (OSAS) team at Red Hat; a freelance tech journalist; community manager for the USENIX Association; associate publisher of Linux Pro Magazine, ADMIN, and Ubuntu User; and as the managing editor of Sys Admin magazine and UnixReview.com. Follow her on Twitter at: @rikkiends.

Open Source Star Best Interview Award 2016 Admin Author Community Manager 100+ Contributions Club

Authored Content

A newcomer's guide to navigating OpenStack Infrastructure

New contributors to OpenStack are welcome, but having a road map for navigating within this maturing, fast-paced open source community doesn't hurt. At OpenStack Summit in…

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5 open source programs for the automated teen's toolbox

At OSCON 2016 in Austin, Keila Banks will be giving a talk on The Automated Teen. Because Keila's father, Phillip Banks, has been a long-time organizer and volunteer at SCaLE…

March 2016: Top 10 and editor's picks

With 1,055,061 page views, Opensource.com set a new record in March and blew away our previous record of 823,899 page views set in January. Thank you to our amazing community…

Impostor syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect in communities

At OSCON 2016 in Austin, Jessica Rose, developer relations at Dream Factory, will give a talk called Impostor syndrome and individual competence. In this interview, she…

Opensource.com April preview

In March, we announced the 2015 Open Source Yearbook PDF. The yearbook has already been downloaded more than 3,500 times since then. Stay tuned: In April, we'll announce…

Still reeling, SourceForge looks to the future

This is Part 2 in a two-part series about when selling a site means selling a community. (Read Part 1: When selling a site means selling a community.) The SourceForge and…

Authored Comments

Rikki Endsley

13 Aug 2015

LibreOffice community achievements

I used OpenOffice then switched to LibreOffice years ago. Love the office suite - I've used it on a Mac and my Linux laptops. Huge thanks to the LibreOffice community for all their energy and efforts!

Rikki Endsley

17 Jul 2015

Keeping skills fresh in tech pays off

Don, I completely agree about "keeping it green" and the idea to keep climbing after you reach the top. I finished Stephen King's book "On Writing" this week, and my new personal challenges are to get back to writing fiction and to read fiction MUCH more. Fiction writing/reading was my childhood passion, and I strayed away from it during my tech journalism career. Now to start exercising my imagination muscles and write.