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

Does the market need freedom, or is it modern sharecropping?

During breakout sessions at Berlin's Free Culture Research Conference, Giorgos Cheliotis from the National University of Singapore led a discussion stemming from a recent…

Applying the open source software model to the world of filmmaking

At last week's Open World Forum, several of those working on open source film projects gathered to talk about their projects and the future of open source filmmaking--what it…

Preparing for my first open source conference

Open World Forum keynote panel: Challenges of open communities

During this afternoon's final keynotes at the Open World Forum, five panelists met to discuss a few of the challenges of geographical and physical barriers open communities…

Open World Forum opens with optimism

The Open World Forum began this morning in Paris with several keynotes that were universally optimistic about the future of open source and the importance of openness. Jean…

Book review: What's Mine Is Yours--The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

We live in a consumer culture in the most literal sense of that word. We aren't just making purchases. We are consuming. And more than just consuming, we are obliterating our…

Open chocolate: Saving $800 million through collaboration

Triple yields of cocoa crops. New lives for 6.5 million poor farmers on small farms in developing nations. More sustainable chocolate for you. Those are the goals of a…

Authored Comments

suehle

21 Sep 2010

Poll: Are bloggers journalists?

If "reporting or discussing current events" is the qualifier, there are hordes of fluff writers in traditional media who aren't "journalists."

suehle

14 Sep 2010

Can hierarchy and sharing co-exist?

I also think the part of DrupalCamp keynote about knowing when to step aside is relevant too. When those at the top of the ladder recognize that the ones below them are ready to be higher, they... climb up on the roof? Onto another ladder? This analogy might be sagging now. :-)