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Microsoft’s Erik Arnold merges passion for tech and philanthropy to help nonprofits gain digital success

GeekWire

Arnold spent time at the Gates-owned Corbis, at PATH, which has a close partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and now Microsoft, where Arnold is CTO of the company’s nonprofit-focused Tech for Social Impact. For many nonprofits, it’s not a lack of willingness to modernize, it’s simply not knowing where to start.”

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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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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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Liveblog: VMworld 2019 Day 1 General Session

Scott Lowe

” This leads to a video about Techsoup (a company that helps various nonprofits) and MotherCoders (a nonprofit focused on helping mothers break into the technology industry). He talks about how VMware works to do “good engineering” and “engineering for good.” This is deep, deep integration.)

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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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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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