Ruth Suehle

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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

Using OpenStreetMap to respond to disasters before they happen

Kate Chapman, executive director of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, gave Tuesday's keynote at Linux.conf.au about preparing and responding for disasters with the help of…

How to get your conference talk submission accepted

Michael Davies, a part of the Linux.conf.au (LCA) conference talk review committee, spent a session at this year's conference talking about how they review talk submissions…

The Maker Manifesto: What are you going to do?

This month marks nine years since O'Reilly Media launched Make magazine, which was the first time many who had already been "makers" for some time started using that term. A…

Why make a new open source software license? MPL 2.0 (part 3)

Then, now, and the future of open source fonts

In August, the Fedora Project held its first Flock conference, a replacement for the North American and European FUDCon (Fedora Users and Developers Conference) events. Flock…

Gabe Newell talks about Linux as the future of gaming; teases "Steam Box" hardware

The gamers among us waited... very... patiently... for Steam to come to Linux. This week, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell came to LinuxCon to talk about Linux, gaming, and how…

Leveraging 21st-century education with open source

A guide to teaching FOSS: teachers as learners

Knowing everything about any open source project is impossible. If you're going to deal with a large community, you're not going to know all the details. This is unlike…

Authored Comments

suehle

18 May 2012

Penguicon--Would you like some sci-fi in your open source?

It's possible I had some intern in mind when I wrote it. :-)

suehle

15 May 2012

On Twitter, do you follow or listen?

Social media companies already know that things like this matter. It's why Twitter's prompt has changed from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?" to simply "Compose new Tweet..." It's why Facebook dropped "What's on your mind?" for six months and then brought it back. It's why Facebook changed your interaction with a Page from "Become a fan" to "Like," and then instead of having "Connections," those Pages got "Fans." They don't do these things because they've run out of hackysacks in the office.