Top 5: SpaceX, drone projects, vi tips, and more: Since Valentine’s Day was earlier this week, I thought we’d focus on love. There’s plenty to love in this week’s top 5, so let’s take a look. And before you go, be sure to enter to win a Mycroft Mark 1 voice assistant. read more: Opensource.com …
China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Making Sense of China’s Mega Projects – a Africa interest event taking place on 2018-01-25 17:30:00 in United Kingdom In this seminar, a panel of speakers will consider and discuss the governance and management of mega infrastructure projects within the context China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The Belt and Road initiative …
How to manage casual contributors to open source projects: Increasingly, people want to contribute to projects casually—when they want to, rather than adhering to a schedule. This is part of a broader trend of “episodic volunteering” noted by a wide range of volunteer organizations and governments. This has been attributed not only to changes in …
Mozilla awards 0K to open source projects, Rome increases its use of FOSS, and more news: In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Mozilla funding open source projects, CBC Radio launching a streaming media project, Rome increasing its use of open source, and more. Open source news roundup …
Top 5: Cleaning messy datasets, kid-friendly Linux distros, TensorFlow projects, and more: In this week’s top 5, we take a look at the Pandas Python data analysis library, the current state of kid-focused Linux distributions, and more. read more: Opensource.com Don Watkins Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: Farking?
RS Components introduces new Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick for deep-learning projects with ultra-low-power consumption: Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick, a tiny fan-less deep-learning hardware that can be used to learn AI programming at the edge Johannesburg, South Africa, 4 August 2017 – RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the global distributor …
George Clooney, Angelina Jolie projects among those headed to Toronto film fest: A comedy-drama directed by George Clooney and a biographical thriller helmed by Angelina Jolie are headed to this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Organizers have announced Clooney's home-invasion comedy-drama “Suburbicon,” written by the Coen brothers and starring Matt Damon and Julianne Moore, is …
How to use Libraries.io data from millions of open source projects: What if we applied the techniques Google applied to index the internet back in 1998 to the world of open source software? That’s exactly the thought Andrew Nesbitt had in 2014 which lead to the creation of Libraries.io, an open source project for indexing other …
Ura Design donates great UX to open source projects: Open source software is nothing new in an age where even big tech giants are exploring and using it. More and more companies allow—if not outright encourage—employees to contribute to open source software on company hours. What’s missing in open source, however, is high-quality, effective design. read …
5 Arduino projects to upgrade your car: From prohibition-era moonshiners to the 2000s MTV classic Pimp My Ride, people have repairing, upgrading, and modifying their cars for a long time. More recently, low-cost microcontrollers like the Arduino have opened new doors for makers looking to do fun and interesting things with their vehicles. read more: …
5 projects for Raspberry Pi at home: The Raspberry Pi computer can be used in all kinds of settings and for a variety of purposes. It obviously has a place in education for helping students with learning programming and maker skills in the classroom and the hackspace, and it has plenty of industrial applications in …
Top 5: Raspberry Pi and Arduino projects, JavaScript editors, and more: In this week’s Top 5, we highlight terminal multiplexers, gardening, JavaScript editors, and a couple of Raspberry Pi projects. Top 5 articles of the week 5. GNU Screen or tmux? read more: Opensource.com bcotton Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: Diving with Sharks?
3 cool machine learning projects using TensorFlow and the Raspberry Pi: In early 2017, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced a Google developer survey, which requested feedback from the maker community on what tools they wanted on the Raspberry Pi. The blog post says that Google has developed tools for machine learning, IoT, wearables, robotics, and …
Internet-enable your microcontroller projects for under with ESP8266: To get started with IoT (the Internet of Things), your device needs, well, an Internet connection. Base Arduino microcontrollers don’t have Internet connectivity by default, so you either need to add Ethernet, Wi-Fi shields, or adapters to them, or buy an Arduino that has built-in Internet connectivity. …
Tips for non-native English speakers working on open source projects: The primary language of most open source projects is English, but open source users and contributors span the globe. Non-native speakers face many communication and cultural challenges when participating in the ecosystem. In this article, we will share challenges, how to overcome them, and best practices …
Top open source projects to watch in 2017: No one has a crystal ball to see the future of technology. Even for projects developed out in the open, code alone can’t tell us whether or not a project is destined for success—but there are hints along the way. For example, perhaps it’s not unreasonable to …
8 fun Raspberry Pi projects to try: For many of us 2016 flew by, and we didn’t complete all our New Year’s resolutions or mark everything off our “2016 To Do” lists. I didn’t have nearly enough time to play with the Raspberry Pi this year, and my list of projects I want to do …
How five vivid arts projects offer up hope for repair and resistance: Swartberg House in the Karoo, designed by Jennifer Beningfield, Open Studio. Richard Davies Review 2016: This has been a year most of humanity would like to forget with war, disasters, racism, sexism and, especially in arts and culture, the deaths of revered icons. …