Ruth Suehle

8567 points

Raleigh, NC

Ruth Suehle is the community leadership manager for Red Hat's Open Source and Standards team. She's co-author of Raspberry Pi Hacks (O'Reilly, December 2013) and a senior editor at GeekMom, a site for those who find their joy in both geekery and parenting. She's a maker at heart who is often behind a sewing machine creating costumes, rolling fondant for an excessively large cake, or looking for the next great DIY project.

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Authored Content

Cable Green, director of learning at Creative Commons, on the obviousness of open policies

Cable Green, director of learning at Creative Commons, gave the final morning's opening keynote at the 2011 Open Education Conference on the seeming obviousness of open policy…

"Access alone is not enough" Josh Jarrett, Deputy Director of Postsecondary Success at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Josh Jarrett, Deputy Director of Postsecondary Success at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, delivered today's keynote at the Open Education Conference with a simple…

Is licensing really the most important question for OER?

Ahrash Bissell, project manager for the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education and former executive director of ccLearn (the education division of Creative Commons)…

Spread the momentum with Open Access Week

This week is Open Access Week, celebrating its fifth year of helping academic and research communities learn more about the benefits of open access and inspiring wider open…

Martha Kanter and Jim Shelton of the US Department of Education open the 2011 Open Education Conference

Martha Kanter, Undersecretary of Education in the US Department of Education, gave today's opening keynote at the 2011 Open Education Conference in Park City, UT, followed by…

Webcast recap: Clay Shirky on open source and the cognitive surplus

Today Clay Shirky joined us for a webcast on how open source takes advantage of the "cognitive surplus"—the way we use our free time more constructively for a greater cause…

Authored Comments

suehle

26 Jul 2011

What comes after Rock Star?

The badges do specify a metric, which makes them completely different from a subjective top 10 list, which obviously will leave out everyone but ten people.

Specific numbers of points are earned for specific activities related to participation on the site, and when specified points levels are reached, badges are awarded. So... I think what you're suggesting as an alternative is actually what we already do.

See: https://opensource.com/points-and-badges

suehle

28 Jun 2011

Will Google+ get your +1?

Interesting idea--the collaboration. I just don't see Diaspora going anywhere. It's pretty sad when you have <a href="http://leavediaspora.com/user?destination=home">haters</a> before any significant quantity of users.