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SeaGL 2025: A Community-Driven Linux Weekend
12 de diciembre de 2025 - By Ted Matsumura
The Seattle GNU/Linux Conference returned to the University of Washington from November 7 to 8 for its thirteenth edition. SeaGL has always been a proudly community-driven, completely free event -- as in the freedom to not need to register or submit any private information to attend -- a grassroots [...]
Organized Team Chat the FOSS way: Meet Zulip
29 de octubre de 2025 - By Max Roveri
Communication is crucial for organizational success but remains a challenge. Zulip aims to address this with its innovative team chat platform. Tim Abbott, Zulip's Founder and CEO, shares how the platform uniquely structures conversations to improve efficiency, especially for distributed teams. This interview explores the inspirations behind Zulip, key [...]
Open Source Meets the Special Challenges of Robotics
2 de octubre de 2025 - By Andrew Oram
Universal coverage and flexibility are important traits for most software, especially free and open source software. Robots make it even harder to achieve these virtues. The variety of sensors, cameras, controllers, and appendages in different robots constantly stretches the capabilities of robotics software.
Simulators exist (we'll examine one in this [...]
Morrolinux: The Economics of Open Source
16 de septiembre de 2025 - By Moreno Razzoli
According to reports from SNS and Global Market Insights, the open source market is currently valued at $30 billion and is projected to reach $120 billion within the next decade. But how can such a massive market exist around software that is, by definition, free to use and redistribute? [...]
The Cyber Resilience Act and Open Source
9 de septiembre de 2025 - By Max Roveri
Linux Professional Institute (LPI) closely follows the evolving landscape of software regulations and their impact on the open source community. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is one such regulation sparking global debate—not only for European developers but also for those maintaining or contributing to open source projects outside the [...]
TLS, Post-Quantum, and Everything In Between at LFNW25
3 de septiembre de 2025 - By Ted Matsumura
Some talks start as slides. Others start as hallway conversations, scan results, certificate errors, and someone in the team asking: “Hey Ted, do we really need TLS 1.3?” By the time I finished preparing this talk for LinuxFest Northwest 2025 — in what was also the 25th anniversary of [...]
Founders Dan York and Evan Leibovitch Entered as LPI Fellows
25 de agosto de 2025 - By Max Roveri
Created by Linux Professional Institute (LPI) in 2024, the Hall of Fellows formally recognizes individuals who have made long-term contributions through their open source advocacy and have shaped the organization and the broader free and open source communities. More than a title, Fellows are a lasting record of those [...]
Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Sponsors Software Freedom Day 2025
Let’s make Software Freedom Day 2025 the most impactful yet. Join us in shaping the future of open technology: locally and globally.
Date: September 20, 2025
Format: Worldwide, local events and online activities
Language: Multilingual (localised per event)
About the Event
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a global celebration of Free/Libre [...]
Quantum Computing: Open Source Communities Tackle Unique Challenges, Part 2
14 de agosto de 2025 - By Andrew Oram
The first article in this series explained the special challenges faced in quantum computing to teams and companies building open source communities. For that article, I interviewed leaders for the classiq library and OQTOPUS. In this concluding article, I interview one more project and offer some general thoughts.
QuTiP
QuTiP (which [...]
Quantum Computing: Open Source Communities Tackle Unique Challenges, Part 1
7 de agosto de 2025 - By Andrew Oram
The challenges of building a community around free and open source software are the topic of numerous books and articles. I chose quantum computing for this article because open source projects face extra barriers there. Quantum computing requires an advanced knowledge of physics, so the set of people who [...]