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Finding and keeping women and other minorities has been a problem in tech. The recent appointment of Nithya Ruff as an at-large director on the Linux Foundation's board should have a positive effect, even outside open source.

Mitchell Hashimoto talks about about how new technologies lead to the tool sets used to make them easier to master.

Those using Linux to register for a Linux Foundation webinar are told to try using Windows or OS X instead.

The building and nurturing of community is more important to software development than you might think.

Linux and open source has a friend in the "Great White North," and we don't mean one of the McKenzie brothers. As an MP, this friend works to bring awareness of open source to Ottawa as he serves the interests of the people of his district in Quebec.

How Walmart leveraged open source to build the infrastructure for the world's second largest online e-commerce site.

IT Pro had a conversation with Scott Hanselman, who gave a keynote address on Thursday at All Things Open, as well as an afternoon presentation on .NET Core. We talked about Microsoft's approach to open source.

All appearances are that Microsoft is no longer an outsider within the enterprise open source community, but a full-fledged citizen.

HashiCorp's Mitchell Hashimoto tells IT Pro how he got started in software, about the acceptance of open source by the enterprise, and why he recently changed hats from CEO to CTO at the company he founded.

It's common knowledge that companies are looking for developers with open source skills -- but how do you help them find you?

There's been another big DDOS attack, this time against the infrastructure of the Internet. It began at 7:10 a.m. EDT today against Dyn, a major DNS host, and was brought under control at 9:36 a.m. Many of the sites affected are among the most trafficked on the web, and included CNN, Twitter, PayPal, Pinterest and Reddit to name a few. The developer community was also touched, as GitHub was also made unreachable.

What's it like to advocate for open source and be a rep for Mozilla in Slovenia? Nino Vraneši? tells all.

The JS Foundation is now a Linux Foundation Project. The news came on Monday, first as an announcement on the Linux Foundation's website, and then announced from the podium at the first day of Oscon Europe in London. "JS," of course, stands for "JavaScript," and as any web developer will tell you, it's an essential part of almost all modern websites.

DevOps just got a little easier for some, now that Red Hat has open sourced Ansible Galaxy, Ansible's official community hub for sharing Ansible Roles.

In this story, "Roblimo" takes us back to 2002, to an open source conference in a country where the common belief was that "nobody knew anything about Linux." Boy, were they in for a surprise.

Raspbian, the Raspberry Pi's most well known distro, has an exciting new look and feel with Pixel.

A strongly worded concurring opinion by a Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit judge doesn't mean that software patents are going away, but might raise the bar for enforcing software patents through the courts.

Free Code Camp is an organization that teaches people to code. As part of this free training, student coders produce free code needed by nonprofit organizations. Free Code Camp doesn’t accept donations, but you can support them by buying t-shirts, hoodies and audiobooks through their store.

Also included: Judge seems to make software patents illegal, Mageia mourns a contributor, Yakkety Yak frozen, KDE's new release, and getting ready for All Things Open.

Resinger figures that by using free and open source platforms such as Moodle and WordPress instead of proprietary options, his school district is saving something like $40,000 a year. As the clickbait headline might read, what he said next will amaze you.