Driving Linux into the mainstream, female open source role models, and more

WEEKLY NEWS What will drive mainstream desktop Linux? How to capture the home user market. Engage women, have fun, get more out of your open source project Open source jobs bring balance. Copyright statements proliferate inside open source code Do they enhance protections or take them away? Call to all open source communities: Emphasize inclusion Diversity is a key element of success. The Women of OpenStack talk outreach, education, and mentoring Networking for better representation. White House to host Maker Faire, new options for Android developers, and more Open source news from around the Web. FROM THE ARCHIVES Why your company should contribute to open source By James Falkner Growing the next generation of open source hackers By Dave Neary OPEN SOURCE EVENTS Linaro Connect Asia 2014 (LCA14), March 3-7 in Macao, China, is all about engineering: a full conference devoted to finding solutions to the engineering projects being run within Linaro. Interested in open science? "Opening Science to Meet Future Challenges" on March 11 in Warsaw, Poland will bring together diverse participants to discuss infrastructural, social, economic and legal aspects of open science and data. Check out the events calendar to see other upcoming open source events and submit your own! Getting more women involved in the open source movement will take intention and effort from a lot of different angles to be successful. But what effect might female role models making money and having fun have on efforts to get young women interested in tech? Great design matters when you are trying to attract people to your open source project. It's not that hard with a little guidance: here are five tips to improve your design process and get more eyeballs on your project. What do you know about OpenStack? OpenStack making big waves in the cloud computing world, but a lot of organizations are still learning about it. Take our poll and let us know what your comfort level with OpenStack is. ENTERPRISERS PROJECT Join the open sourced-dialogue about the future of CIOs. Successful CIOs are joined at the hip with peers Red Hat Customer Engagement VP Iain Gray explains how CIOs can better drive the business. How to give a new leader the best possible start The importance of announcing new hires. Rising office trends of 2014 infographic From BYOD to cloud adoption, here's a cool infographic showcasing rising office trends. Does your company have IT specialists embedded within different departments? PrimeLending CIO Tim Elkins explains how letting IT employees 'invade the business' can help move the business forward.

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