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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

TechCrunch

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. ” The open source factor. . ” The open source factor.

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AWS Converts Cedar Policy-as-Code Tool to Open Source Project

DevOps.com

At the Open Source Summit North America conference today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is making Cedar, a language for defining permissions as policies that includes automated reasoning to mathematically prove an IT environment is secure, available as an open source project.

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CipherMode Labs launches open source solution to protect data without encryption expertise

TechCrunch

At the beginning of my PhD, when I went to security conferences, and I said that I’m working on this topic, Secure Multiparty Computation, people said ‘oh, that’s a cute cryptographic toy, but it’s never going to be used [widely],’” he said. “At

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Octoverse 2022: 10 years of tracking open source

Github

What to know: We recently published our 2022 Octoverse report where we explore the impact open source software is having on developers and companies. 10 years ago, we released our first Octoverse report to celebrate the developers on GitHub and explore the state of open source. It was a radically different world.

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Article: Why Developers and Staff+ Engineers Should Get Involved in Open-Source Collaborative Development

InfoQ Culture Methods

Open source is how we do modern software development, stitching together downloaded open-source libraries, frameworks, and other code to create new applications or functionality. This is why every developer and senior staff+ roles need to know what open source is and how it works. By Nithya Ruff

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Grafana Labs Acquires k6 to Add Open Source Load Testing Tool

DevOps.com

During its online GrafanaCONline 2021 conference today, Grafana Labs revealed it has acquired k6, a provider of an open source load testing tool. Raj Dutt, Grafana Labs CEO, said load testing will complement the observability platform Grafana Labs currently provides based on open source Prometheus software.

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Hackathons vs Conference: Which One Works The Best for Blockchain Industry?

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

One of the ways to disseminate information about the tech is via industry conferences which help Blockchain developers network with and learn from their peers. But, is a Blockchain conference enough to fulfill this goal of interaction, adoption, and learning? What is the best way to calculate the ROI from these conferences?