Jan 13, 2011 GMT
The 2011 SharePoint Technology Conference (SPTechCon) will be held February 7-9 in San Francisco, California. We have 2 Three-Day Full Event Passports to give away (valued at US$ 1,595 each). The passes include all workshops, sessions, meals, receptions and materials (airfare and/or lodging not included; non-transferable; no cash value; yadda yadda).
If you would like to use one of these free passes to attend the SPTechCon 2011 event, please more »
Jan 07, 2011 GMT
I met Alison Chaiken at LinuxCon 2010 in Boston, not long after she joined Nokia as a MeeGo Technical Consultant. If you want to learn more »
Jan 07, 2011 GMT
In the latest issue of Linux Pro Magazine, I wrote about mobile app development startups and the new job opportunities around mobile technology. I also mentioned that we're accepting article proposals for our new magazine, Smart Developer.
The AndroidGals website is also looking for contributors: more »
Dec 15, 2010 GMT
In November, the Debian Women project started a series of online training sessions, which are held in IRC. The December 9, 2010 session covered how to use the bug tracking system and now the tutorial is available online. The next session will be held tomorrow (December 16th) and will cover Debian package information: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen/TrainingSessions
Dec 10, 2010 GMT
Normally I wouldn't write about children's books on this blog, but today I'm making an exception. My 14-year-old daughter and I listen to NPR each morning as I take her to school. This morning we listened to the more »
Dec 02, 2010 GMT
Valerie Aurora wrote an excellent article for lwn.net, The Dark Side of Open Source Conferences. Currently, the article is only available to lwn.net subscribers, but you can write to Valerie to get the link, or wait until the post is publicly available in a few days.
In her article, Valerie talks about the bad experiences several women have had at open source... more »
Dec 02, 2010 GMT
In the past, I've written about Mel Chua and Red Hat's POSSE (Professor's Open Source Summer Experience). Now Heidi Ellis, Associate Professor and Chair of the Computer Science and Information Technology department at Western New England College, shares her thoughts on the... more »
Vendor D-Wave scores big with a sale to NASA's Quantum Intelligence Lab.
Many package updates and Steam integration highlight the latest from the Mandriva-based community Linux.
Richard Stallman calls for the W3C to remain independent of vendor interests.
The new release supports nine architectures, 73 human languages, and zero non-Free components.
Fedora developers release the first alpha version of Fedora 19, known as Schrödinger’s Cat, for general testing. The final release is expected in July 2013.
ack is a grep-like, command-line tool that has been optimized for programmers to search large trees of source code.
New features in SUSE Studio 1.3 include enhanced cloud integration, VM platform support, and lifecycle management.
The Linux Foundation recently announced that the Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
Open source version of LiveCode is now available for developing apps, games, and utilities for all major platforms.
OpenDaylight is an open source software-defined networking project committed to furthering adoption of SDN and accelerating innovation in a vendor-neutral and open environment.
