Steven Ovadia

425 points

NYC

Steven Ovadia writes LinuxRig.com, which features The Linux Setup, interviews with desktop Linux users. He is an academic librarian who writes about how users interact with information in an online context for assorted Library Science journals. He is the author of Learn Linux in a Month of Lunches. You can see all of his publications at steven.ovadia.org

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Authored Content

The rise of the shareable document

Higher education is increasingly embracing different concepts of openness, from open access to open education resources (OER). But where does that other open concept—open…

4 open source tools I used to write a Linux book

I spent the past year or so writing Learn Linux in a Month of Lunches, which is designed to introduce desktop Linux to non-technical users. This is a rundown of the tools I…

Writing documentation with AsciiDoc

I discovered AsciiDoc while writing Learn Linux in a Month of Lunches. AsciiDoc is a fantastically thorough markup language for writing books—think Markdown, but with more…

Just let your people do their jobs

I don't read many management books, but I was very curious to read Jim Whitehurst's The Open Organization because there's a lot corporate America (and academia) can learn from…

Optimize your Linux rig for top-notch writing

I'm a big fan of Scott Nesbitt's writing, which has a technological bent, but is usually more about working effectively, rather than how tools can make you effective, which is…

Scientists manage research with open source Zotero

References and citations are what make the scientific and academic worlds go round. Everyone has their own system for keeping track of their research, from dumping everything…

Authored Comments

stevenov

27 Sep 2016

The rise of the shareable document

Collaboration is hard! You make your own choices, but to a certain extent, you're stuck with the choices made by others.

stevenov

12 Sep 2016

The rise of the shareable document

Unfortunately, I didn't have the space to explore the history of Linux and its licensing. However, if you're interested in that sort of thing, I recommend Decoding Liberation (http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~bcfoss/DL/), a fantastic book about the politics and economics of free and open source software. It's an incredible book.