Cornelius explains how balanced team member profiles enhance teamwork, using task- and people-orientation metrics to identify strengths and optimize collaboration.
23 articles from this blog
A reflection on KDE's 25-year history, its evolution from a Linux desktop project to a diverse software community, and its sustainable impact.
A developer shares key lessons learned from attending virtual tech conferences for a year, comparing them to in-person events.
Explores the concept of 'governance on demand' for open source projects, suggesting formal structures be established only when conflict arises.
Using Terraform and a custom tool to manage GitHub issue labels as code for consistency and automation across repositories.
A developer reflects on their open source career, from learning C++ and Qt to becoming an engineering manager, emphasizing community and passion over money.
Explores the challenges of applying open source software freedoms to web services and introduces the Fair Web Services project.
A project to map and analyze the governance models of various open source projects, creating a machine-readable resource for comparison and learning.
A developer shares seven key lessons on open source governance, from being conscious about structure to maintaining community kindness.
Explores how to represent multiple authors in Git commits for pair programming, discussing the Co-authored-by convention and native support.
Explains how to manage multiple Ruby versions on openSUSE using the 'orr' tool for easy installation and environment setup.
A developer shares projects from SUSE Hack Week 15, including Conway's Game of Life, Ruby gems, and Git tooling.
Announcing the redesigned Inqlude website with improved library categorization, navigation, and metadata for Qt libraries.
A retrospective on the 20-year history of the KDE desktop environment, from its founding to its impact on Linux and open-source software.
Introducing the Cloud Foundry OpenStack Validator, a tool to check if an OpenStack installation is ready to run Cloud Foundry.
An invitation for students to join Google's Summer of Code, submit project proposals, and get paid to work with open source communities like KDE and openSUSE.
A technical guide for setting up a Ruby on Rails development environment with PostgreSQL on the openSUSE Leap 42.1 operating system.
Inqlude now lists 184 third-party Qt libraries, providing a comprehensive archive and tools for Qt developers to discover and integrate extensions.
SUSE's Hack Week allows engineers to work on self-chosen projects, fostering innovation, learning, and collaboration.
Author celebrates 55,555 downloads of their ownCloud appliance, discusses its ease of use, and shares technical and community hopes for the project.
An analysis of KDE Plasma's Activities feature, exploring user mental models and proposing a clearer separation from virtual desktops using space-time metaphors.
