Did you know you can contribute to many open-source projects without being an expert on GitHub, Git, or coding? Whether or not you're an experienced programmer, you can learn how to use the most ...

Open source is no longer a novelty, even within the largest corporations. Today, 53% of businesses use open-source software, according to a recent CIO.com survey. However, not enough of those ...

CIO.com – If 2008 had a buzzword, it was probably “community.” More and more companies are looking to tap into communities for contributions to open source projects. But following the open-source ...

Institutions are not yet familiar with how to contribute code while retaining IP rights and minimizing any real or perceived risk I just read this interesting Forbes article (via Ostatic) about ...

The expert team at Freeform Dynamics offer news and views on the latest hot topics, and pragmatic advice based on real-world experience and meaningful research studies. Could voluntary work on open ...

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...

I have a couple of years of programming experience and would like to help out the open source world by contributing some of my effort and time. I don't have much Linux experience as a user, and none ...

The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The finance sector has an interesting relationship with open source. For many years, open ...

Title lifted fully from a morning press release by HP. The meat of it is: HP will make the underlying code of webOS available under an open source license. Developers, partners, HP engineers and other ...