{"id":12402,"date":"2015-06-23T17:35:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T17:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-2015-open-source-summer-reading-list\/"},"modified":"2015-06-23T17:35:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T17:35:03","slug":"the-2015-open-source-summer-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-2015-open-source-summer-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2015 open source summer reading list [opensource.com]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com\/post\/122255035180\/the-2015-open-source-summer-reading-list\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">mostlysignssomeportents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"geom_inter_8_1435080898242_70\">\n<h2>A decade of good books<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s 2004. Google files its IPO. A group of undergrads launche<br \/>\nsomething called \u201cThe Facebook\u201d at Harvard University. Apple\u2019s most<br \/>\npopular pocket i-thing is years away from taking phone calls. A curious<br \/>\nnew Linux distribution called \u201cUbuntu\u201d appears.<\/p>\n<p>Opensource.com doesn\u2019t exist. It won\u2019t for <a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.redhat.com\/\">another six years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tech-savvy readers hungry for open source stories subscribe to another publication: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingtree.com\/blog\/index.cfm\/2004\/10\/14\/20041014\">Red Hat Magazine<\/a>. That publication is actually the product of a marriage between two others: Under the Brim, a digital newsletter Red Hat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhat.com\/advice\/speaks_firstutb.html\">launched in 1999<\/a>, and Wide Open Magazine, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moundalexis.com\/archives\/000036.php\">short-lived glossy<\/a> in the same vein.<\/p>\n<p>And something else appears online: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhat.com\/mktg\/summer_read\/\">first recorded instance<\/a> of the open source summer reading list.<\/p>\n<p id=\"geom_inter_6_1435080898242_83\">A decade-old reading list runs the risk of seeming quaint, even<br \/>\nnaive. A proper dose of hindsight might make the issues it addresses<br \/>\nfeel old-fashioned. But the 2004 open source summer reading list is<br \/>\nremarkable for just how relevant its entries remain today. Eric<br \/>\nRaymond\u2019s oft-cited The Cathedral and the Bazaar is there, then<br \/>\n only three years old. Guides for learning new computer skills\u2014like<br \/>\nLinux router maintenance, programming in Python, and utilizing UNIX\u2014are<br \/>\nas crucial today as they ever were. The list\u2019s only work of fiction,<br \/>\nNeal Stephenson\u2019s Cryptonomicon, continues to delight. Open<br \/>\nsource communities might embrace blindingly rapid development, but the<br \/>\nideas that galvanize and drive them haven\u2019t change much in the last ten<br \/>\nyears.<\/p>\n<p id=\"geom_inter_7_1435080898242_55\">If the open source summer reading list is even older than<br \/>\nOpensource.com itself, then the values that inform it are older still.<br \/>\nAnother decade of wonderful books won\u2019t change them.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/opensource.com\/life\/15\/6\/2015-summer-reading-list\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mostlysignssomeportents: A decade of good books It\u2019s 2004. Google files its IPO. A group of undergrads launche something called \u201cThe Facebook\u201d at Harvard University. Apple\u2019s most popular pocket i-thing is years away from taking phone calls. A curious new Linux distribution called \u201cUbuntu\u201d appears. Opensource.com doesn\u2019t exist. It won\u2019t for another six years. Tech-savvy readers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3e2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}