Posts Tagged ‘director’

Guest Post: Why Perl isn’t Going Away Soon (Or Ever)

Lately, the Perl language has had less buzz surrounding it than many other languages and development environments, but Perl is still a key component on the Internet. For this guest post, we asked Jeff Hobbs, Director of Engineering at ActiveState, to weigh in on the topic. Why Perl isn’t Going Away Soon (or Ever By Jeff Hobbs,  Director of Engineering, ActiveState Out of sight, and out of mind

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Watch Live Feeds From Linux Collab Summit for Free

The 4th Annual Linux Collaboration Summit got underway today and if you can’t be there, you can catch all the opening day keynotes and panel discussions on live video stream for free. All you need to do is register for a free Linux Foundation account and you’re good to go. Today’s events include: Keynote: Welcome and State of the Linux Union Jim Zemlin , Executive Director at The Linux Foundation Panel: Does Open Source Mean Open Cloud?

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Powerful Video Editor Lightworks Released as Open Source

EditShare, the company behind Academy and Emmy award-winning video editing software Lightworks announced plans to release its product under an open source license.

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Powerful Video Editor Lightworks Released as Open Source

The Linux Foundation Wants Your "We’re Linux" Contest Videos

We’ve covered the Linux Foundation’s “We’re Linux” video contests before , and there’s another underway right now. This year’s prizes include a trip to LinuxCon in Boston later this year, a chance to win a fully-loaded Linux laptop, and bragging rights for submitting the best “We’re Linux” video from all the entries. The best video will be chosen by a panel of judges as well as online community rankings

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Will Simon Phipps Energize OSI?

Former Sun chief open source officer Simon Phipps is joining the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board effective April 1st. Let’s hope Phipps can shake the organization up a bit. I’d hazard a guess that many newcomers to the open source community are partially or even wholly unaware of the OSI and what it’s meant to do, because the OSI has not been a terribly dynamic organization over the past few years

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