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Are IT certifications replacing the college degree?

CIO Business Intelligence

Since then he has racked up certifications, many from the Linux Foundation. Gary Flowers, CIO of transformation and technology services at nonprofit Year Up, agrees. Likewise, Clyde Seepersad, senior vice president and general manager of the Linux Foundation Education, says the question isn’t one versus the other.

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Why your best IT managers quit

CIO Business Intelligence

Meanwhile, Clyde Seepersad, senior vice president and general manager of training and certification at open-source nonprofit Linux Foundation, says he has seen good managers leave due to a common workplace issue in IT: not enough workers. Barrett notes that managers also tend to flee when companies are stagnant or contracting.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. We have some of the best Linux engineers and we can’t leave them behind.”

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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

Automakers want to standardize on a Linux-based OS that would make vehicle infotainment systems act more like smartphones. Automakers are working to standardize on a Linux-based operating system for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems that would make it easier for cars to act more like smartphones. In Vehicle Infotainment.

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Carbon Call: Microsoft among organizations joining effort to bolster accounting of CO2 emissions

GeekWire

” So the San Francisco-based nonprofit is leading an effort called the Carbon Call that includes Microsoft, the Linux Foundation, and 11 other international organizations to support the development of a comprehensive, comparable, interoperable system of carbon tracking ledgers. “There is no one single ledger.

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Women in Tech – Hacking Business Diversity

Linux Academy

In her free time, Chloe is a speaker and mentor on diversity and inclusion in InfoSec and runs the nonprofit “Drop Labels” . And for specific insights about innovation at Linux Academy, we spoke with our COO: Anna Talerico is the Chief Operating Officer of Linux Academy and leader of sales, support, customer service, and culture.

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Top 3 Cyber Predictions in 2023 and How You Can Prepare

ForAllSecure

Nonprofits like the Linux Foundation, and a few big tech companies like Google are investing. The US is now requiring a software bill of materials, which helps make explicit the quantity of OSS we depend on. However, the SBOM is silent on who needs to improve the quality and security of that software.