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October is the Most Open (Source) Month (Video)
Do you read OpenSource.com? If you're interested in Linux or Open Source, perhaps you should. Our interview guest today, Rikki Endsley, is an editor and community manager there. She says that while Red Hat is the site's sponsor, they never try to dictate the site's content. And even if you don't want to read another website (although OpenSource.com is a mighty good one), maybe you can make your way to the All Things Open conference October 19 and 20 in Raleigh.
Or you might want to submit an article proposal to OpenSource.com. They don't pay in money, but it's a prestigious site -- and we know professional writers whose work has appeared there, alongside articles written by people with strong programming skills but weak English skills -- who have been helped by Rikki and other site personnel to whip their thoughts into publishable form. All of this (aside from the All Things Open conference) goes on all year long, but Hey! If we're going to have a Most Open Month, it might as well be October, which is arguably one of the 12 most excellent months in the entire Gregorian calendar.
Or you might want to submit an article proposal to OpenSource.com. They don't pay in money, but it's a prestigious site -- and we know professional writers whose work has appeared there, alongside articles written by people with strong programming skills but weak English skills -- who have been helped by Rikki and other site personnel to whip their thoughts into publishable form. All of this (aside from the All Things Open conference) goes on all year long, but Hey! If we're going to have a Most Open Month, it might as well be October, which is arguably one of the 12 most excellent months in the entire Gregorian calendar.
Do you read OpenSource.com? If you're interested in Linux or Open Source, perhaps you should.
I dunno, Slashdot, the last link to an open-source site you recommended to me was sourceforge.net, and I got a bad case of of herp--er, special offers--from there.
Another video that has no value as a video in and of itself.
Yet again, slashdot, a lot of us don't feel like spending all that time listening to people having a conversation. If you're going to show video, have it be useful video that conveys useful information that is difficult to present in any other format. A filmed interview doesn't come anywhere near qualifying under that standard. I, and many like me, don't want to sit and listen to people talking back and forth about a topic. We want a real journalist to do real work and condense the results of the interview into a useful article that quickly (and, hopefully, accurately) conveys the information.