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Metrics are great. They can give you situational awareness about what's going on in your community, help you identify issues that you need to fix, and prove the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of community initiatives. But sometimes things go wrong.

Last week the Obama Administration introduced BusinessUSA, an online platform to help small businesses in their efforts to grow, hire, and export products and services. Now the U.S. Department of Commerce has kicked off a US$ 10,000 app development contest.

The Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center is ready to lower costs, and one way to do that is to get rid of costly Microsoft Office applications and adopt cloud-based or open source solutions instead.

On February 10, 2012, CASH Music launched a Kickstarter campaign and raised more than 70% of their $30,000 goal in about 24 hours. What is CASH Music? And why does it already have vocal support from musicians, Firefox, and even Neil Gaiman?

What does Linux have to do with the Replay Lounge's success? As it turns out, a lot.

I met Jaisen Mathai at SCALE10x after seeing his UpSCALE talk in which he introduced the OpenPhoto project with 20 slides in five-minutes. In this interview, Mathai explains what inspired the ambitious project and his vision for where it will be by the end of the year.

Sure, Linux is great for big organizations like Google, Facebook, and others, but what about small business? Take a look at PrintedArt. Founded in 2010, PrintedArt is an online shop that sells limited-editions of fine art photography. It now has three full-time and three part-time employees and eight sales representatives. According to President and CEO Klaus Sonnenleiter, Linux and open source play a number of roles in the company's success.

Developer Brian McKinney explains the inspiration and open source technology behind Gentlemint, a new online "mint of manly things."

New survey shows Linux as the preferred platform for Big Data, virtualization, and cloud computing trends.

Do you have what it takes to land that job with an HPC vendor you've got your eye on? Brent Welch, the director of software architecture at Panasas, talks about the role Linux plays in HPC at Panasas and the in-demand technical skills supercomputing suppliers need from job applicants.

Monday, January 16, 2012 is Martin Luther King Day, and in honor of that occasion I present to you a story of King's two degrees of separation from open source, specifically NASA's new open source code site.

Recently I spoke with William Eshagh and his colleague, Sean Herron, a technology strategist at NASA, about their new open source code site and the roles Linux and open source play at the organization.

My relationship with my motley crew of cats and dogs is similar to my relationship with Linux. In both cases, I've learned that patience pays off, and life is better with than without them.

Cool tools to project song lyrics or videos, study the Qur'an & Bible, & get your church online

In 2009, Amelia Andersdotter, a member of the Swedish Pirate Party (Piratpartiet), won a seat at the European Parliament in Brussels, but her official appointment was delayed until this year. Amelia Andersdotter talks about open source, Linux, and taking a seat on the European Parliament

In a blog post today, Richard Jones, Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, announced the release of libguestfs 1.14, an open source set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine (VM) disk images.

The Department of Physics at the University of Oxford releases super-cool, free Large Hadron Collider Google Android app.

In October 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp sent an email to the FreeBSD mailing list with the subject line A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass.... In that long note, he explained Parkinson's Law of Triviality, which is also known as bikeshedding or the bicycle-shed example.

Open Source Ecology and the Global Village Construction Set take a collaborative approach to building civilizations.

Founder Monty Widenius says open core model is bad for business.