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

Creative Commons licensing just gave your YouTube videos a lot more freedom

As of noon Eastern time today, you can put a Creative Commons license ( CC BY 3.0) on your YouTube video uploads. In addition, YouTube will be uploading plenty of Creative…

Rock on with your newly open bootloader, HTC customers

How do you get nearly 7,000 Likes and 2,000 comments on your Facebook post? Be HTC and post this: No word yet on whether it will apply retroactively. Nevertheless, let's have…

A Boxee Box review: Recent updates and questions of openness

The Boxee Box, available since November 2010 with firmware recently upated to 1.1, is a winning compromise that makes a Linux-based HTPC easy enough for the least technical…

Microsoft cuts Asterisk ties--What are the open source Skype alternatives?

Microsoft has ended its deal to let the open source Asterisk PBX system work with Skype as of July 26, perhaps due to the launch of its own competing service. When Microsoft…

Is the future open? Ask a fourteen-year-old.

In a NY Times op-ed, David Hajdu posits that the spate of notable musicians all of the same age (turning 70 this year) is attributable to their turning 14 in the mid-1950s…

Open standards and a smart energy grid: Interview with Green Energy Corp

Green Energy Corp creates software and services for communications and energy companies. They're working towards an open source smart grid solution that will help both new and…

Authored Comments

suehle

13 Mar 2011

My prototype beat up your business plan

Got it--thanks! And sorry. As you can probably imagine, I'm pretty sympathetic to name misspellings. :-)

suehle

7 Mar 2011

Recap: A Practically Radical webcast with Bill Taylor and Polly LaBarre

Well, the title says recap, which is here. :-) But the audio is usually available pretty quickly--sorry it's not here yet. It should be soon, and it'll be available for a year, so you'll have plenty of time to listen in.