“It’s that time of year again when we come together to support and celebrate the open source technologies we use and love,” announces a post on Digital Ocean’s blog. Hacktoberfest is a monthlong celebration of open source software. It was started at DigitalOcean as a way to foster a sense of community and encourage more participation in open source projects. To…
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Google Loans Cameras To Volunteers To Fill Gaps in ‘Street View’
NPR explains why a man “applied to borrow a 360-degree camera through Google’s Street View camera loan program.” Kanhema, who works as a product manager in Silicon Valley and is a freelance photographer in his spare time, volunteered to carry Google’s Street View gear to map what amounted to 2,000 miles of his home country. The Berkeley, California, resident has filled…
Manjaro Linux Tries Forming A Company To Fund Full-Time Development
Forbes.com shares some big Linux news: Since 2011, Arch Linux-based Manjaro has focused on being a simple-to-use, accessible Linux desktop distribution with a friendly community… But as of today, Manjaro Linux is no longer just a Linux distribution — it’s officially transforming into a company with ambitious plans for its future. Say hello to Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG. The announcement…
What’s new on Coursera for Business – August 2019
By Kyle Clark, Senior Skills Transformation Consultant Coursera released 44 courses on our platform in August. We are particularly excited to announce a range of new courses from the manufacturing, architecture, and engineering design software industry leader, Autodesk, on Generative Design and CAD/CAM for manufacturing. Here are our top picks for enterprise for this past […]
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Some Original Berkeley Unix Pioneers Still Work On The FreeBSD Project
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The Linux Foundation hosted the executive director of the FreeBSD Foundation, Deb Goodkin, at the Open Source Summit in San Diego. In this episode of Let’s Talk, we sat down with Goodkin to talk about the FreeBSD project and the foundation. “How did they let you in?” jokes their interviewer. “They didn’t realize that FreeBSD was not a…
Imperial Research Teaching Fellow Helps Create “Alarm System” For Dengue Outbreaks
Dengue is the fastest-spreading mosquito-borne viral illness in the world, and has become a leading cause of morbidity in many tropical and subtropical regions – including outbreaks in recent years in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and other Latin American countries. The direct impact of these outbreaks is exacerbated by the stress they place […]
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Mattermost Raises $50 Million For Its Open Source Slack Alternative
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Mattermost, a startup developing what it characterizes as an open source messaging alternative to Google’s Hangouts Chat, Atlassian’s HipChat, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, today announced the closure of a $50 million series B funding round. The round was led by Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund, with participation from new investor Battery Ventures, as well as existing investors Redpoint…
Microsoft Adds Python To Windows — Sort Of
A post this week on Microsoft’s developer blog explains “what we, the Python team, have done to make Python easier to install on Windows” after the next update. TLDR: Typing ‘python’ in Windows’ Command Prompt will take you to the Microsoft Store’s Python page: Microsoft has been involved with the Python community for over twelve years, and currently employ four of…
Is Go Google’s Programming Language, Not Ours?
Chris Siebenmann is a Unix sys-admin for the CS department at the University of Toronto. He recently saw a tweet asking about the possibility of community-implemented generics for the Go programming language, and posted a widely-read response on his blog. “There are many answers for why this won’t happen, but one that does not usually get said out loud is that…
GitHub Launches Sponsors, Lets You Pay Your Favorite Open-Source Contributors
GitHub today launched Sponsors, a new tool that lets you give financial support to open-source developers through recurring monthly payments. Developers will be able to opt into having a “Sponsor me” button on their GitHub repositories and open-source projects will also be able to highlight their funding models, no matter whether that’s individual contributions to developers or using Patreon, Tidelift, Ko-fi…