Development by Davis: “Make it easy to contribute by making the software easy to test” plus 3 more

Make it easy to contribute by making the software easy to test
AMD’s SeaMicro Servers Accelerate Leading-edge Biomolecular Research to Provide High-performance Computing (HPC) at the University of Munich
By the numbers: Open source highlights from May
AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 Server Achieves Certification for Red Hat OpenStack

Make it easy to contribute by making the software easy to test

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 02:00 AM PDT

Question: How do you get more developers to contribute to a free and open source software project? Contribution is the lifeblood of a FOSS community Without contributions the community can't grow beyond the initial project founders. People don't just show up ready to work. They very likely start as users, even of the fledgling software before it really starts to take shape as the robust solution it could become.

Let's approach the question of getting more developers involved as "software engineers" instead of as "community organizers" by asking a different question: Why do we use software versioning a.k.a. software configuration management tools?

AMD’s SeaMicro Servers Accelerate Leading-edge Biomolecular Research to Provide High-performance Computing (HPC) at the University of Munich

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:00 AM PDT

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that the Gene Center of the University of Munich (Ludwig Maximilians University, or LMU) has accelerated its research capabilities using AMD's SeaMicro servers to gain a computational edge for its groundbreaking discoveri...

By the numbers: Open source highlights from May

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:00 AM PDT

Here's what was hot, what you may have missed, and what the chatter was all about last month.

We published 47 articles, several from our awesome community moderators and many from the rest of our wonderful open source community of contributors.

AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 Server Achieves Certification for Red Hat OpenStack

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 12:00 AM PDT

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that its SeaMicro SM15000™ server is certified for Red Hat® OpenStack, and that the company has joined the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network. The certification ensures that the SeaMicro SM15000 serv...

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