Topic: IT Trends

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Beyond code: how content helps open source projects thrive 

  • By Lacey Butler, Lacey focuses on open source community engagement and is the co-producer of The Open Source Show. Her goals: recognize, inspire, and motivate developers far and wide, helping them do amazing things with technology. When she’s not crafting new shows, you’ll likely spot her at the public library searching for new gems or trying every product Trader Joe’s has to offer.

One of the best things about the open source community is that anyone can have an impact, regardless…

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Celebrating OSCON’s 20th anniversary 

  • By Ken Thompson, Focused on Open Source Software, Azure Resource Manager and DevOps on Azure, I'm responsible for helping customers succeed with DevOps on the Azure cloud, using the tools and practices they know and love. I work with communities and partners to better integrate solutions on Azure that involve third-party DevOps tools such as (but not limited to) Ansible, Chef, Docker, Eclipse, Gitlab, Jenkins, Packer, Spinnaker, and Terraform.

We’re in Portland this week for OSCON’s return to the City of Roses (or Beervana, depending on who…

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Coming soon: more Open Source Show episodes, featuring new community hosts 

  • By Lacey Butler, Lacey focuses on open source community engagement and is the co-producer of The Open Source Show. Her goals: recognize, inspire, and motivate developers far and wide, helping them do amazing things with technology. When she’s not crafting new shows, you’ll likely spot her at the public library searching for new gems or trying every product Trader Joe’s has to offer.

We launched The Open Source Show – featuring our own Suz Hinton, Lena Hall, and Bernd Verst –…

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Open Source Weekly: Azure SDK for Go v15, Python in VS Code, and more 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

3-minute read + demos Check out the below recap of this week’s top open source related product announcements,…

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Open Source Weekly: database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL and more 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

5-minute read + demos Check out the below recap of this week’s top open source related product announcements,…

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Open Source Weekly: VSCode Python updates, Helm Summit learnings, and more 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

4-minute read + demos The February release of Visual Studio Code, our free and open source code editor,…

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Join OSI and Microsoft in the new ClearlyDefined project 

  • By Jeff McAffer, Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Microsoft, where he and the team are helping to drive the company’s transition to an “open source engagement first” model. He was one of the founders of the Eclipse open source project where he was an active community leader, core contributor, book author, and frequent conference speaker.

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) today announced its incubator project, ClearlyDefined. ClearlyDefined is focused on crowd-sourcing critical licensing…

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Open Source Weekly: Updated Quantum SDK, deep learning for autonomous driving, and more 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

4-minute read + demos This week Microsoft released updates to our Quantum Development Kit, including support for macOS…