Ask not what Brands™ can do for you
VM Brasseur discusses the help new companies need to become authentic members of the free and open source software community.
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Open source force multipliers
Adrian Cockcroft says the most successful open-source-based businesses have turned their partners and developer communities into force multipliers for their own marketing and engineering teams.
The war for the soul of open source
Drawing on 13 years spent building the Chef community, Adam Jacob takes a deep dive into the soul of open source.
Four short links: 18 July 2019
Weird Algorithms, Open Syllabi, Conversational AI, and Quantum Computing
The next age of open innovation
Alison McCauley looks at how blockchain technology offers new tools that can help extend the ethos of open innovation into new areas.
Why Amazon cares about open source
Arun Gupta discusses the reasons why AWS is committed to open projects and communities.
The role of open source in mitigating natural disasters
Pedro Cruz and Brad Topol discuss Call for Code, a global developer competition that uses open source technologies to address natural disasters.
Built to last: Building and growing open source communities
Kay Williams explores key lessons for building strong open source communities based on Microsoft’s real-world experience with Kubernetes and VSCode.
Better living through software
Tiffani Bell shares three lessons she's learned exploring how technology can help the less fortunate.
Four short links: 17 July 2019
Margaret Hamilton, WeChat Censorship, Refactoring, and Ancient Games
Four short links: 16 July 2019
Quantum TiqTaqToe, Social Media & Depression, Incidents, and Unity ML
Managing machine learning in the enterprise: Lessons from banking and health care
A look at how guidelines from regulated industries can help shape your ML strategy.
Four short links: 15 July 2019
Climbing Robot, Programming and Programming Languages, Media Player, and Burnout Shops
Four short links: 12 July 2019
Hosting Hate, Releasing, Government Innovation, and Voice Cloning
Four short links: 11 July 2019
Museum Copyright, Twitter Apprenticeship, AI Regulation, and Computational Biology
Four short links: 10 July 2019
Optimisations and Security, 512 Byte Pacman, Cell Security, and Meme AI
The circle of fairness
We shouldn't ask our AI tools to be fair; instead, we should ask them to be less unfair and be willing to iterate until we see improvement.
Four short links: 9 July 2019
Future of Work, GRAND Stack, Hilarious Law Review Article, and The Platform Excuse