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When I joined as chief people officer in April of this year, I had a feeling that Red Hat was going to be the right place for me because of the culture and our values. The last seven months have proven that intuition correct. Red Hatters not only welcomed me, but they embraced me and my ideas, despite coming from outside the company, and I’ve had incredible opportunities to see our open culture in action.

From workplace accolades to product wins, we are proud to be able to highlight some aspects of our company and the recognition they’ve received in the past few months. Let's check them out!

How can the power of open culture transform your organization? In this post, we explore common open culture practices and why they're fundamental to success in our rapidly-changing world. Learn more!

Today, we are sharing news that Tim Yeaton, Red Hat’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer (CMO) will retire in 2022. We’ve had the benefit of planning for Tim’s retirement for some time and using Red Hat’s succession planning process to identify and develop our next CMO. Long time Red Hat marketing communications and brand leader Leigh Day has been promoted to senior vice president (SVP) of Marketing and in January, she will assume the role of CMO.

Every year in mid-October, we celebrate women tech pioneers on Ada Lovelace Day. In this post, we break down what four Red Hatters had to say about getting started in tech, practicing allyship and overcoming imposter syndrome.

Sebastian Hetze is a Red Hat Principal Solution Architect, but was a taxi cab driver when he first started getting into free software. We've seen people from all different backgrounds contribute to Linux and open source. Read his story:

Editor’s note: Paul Cormier, Red Hat's president and chief executive officer, shared the following email with Red Hat associates today.

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We are pleased to announce that Red Hat's head of Application Services engineering, Mark Little, Ph.D., has been named a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the U.K.’s national academy of engineering.

We just wrapped up AnsibleFest 2021, which included customer spotlight sessions showcasing some of the ways Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can help organizations scale and increase collaboration. 

Red Hat Developer has published Quarkus for Spring Developers, a comprehensive e-book introducing Quarkus to Java developers, with a focus on helping people familiar with Spring make the transition. Learn more!

Check out how customers from around the world, from Asia-Pacific, to Europe, to North America, tapped Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to meet their own demands.

Central to delivering and supporting portable IT automation is the Red Hat partner ecosystem. Today, we are proud to announce that there are nearly 100 supported partner platforms enabled by Ansible Content Collections, nearly double since this time last year. 

Red Hat is firmly focused on building further capabilities into our portfolio of solutions to meet even more customer needs and anticipate future growth opportunities. This of course is rooted in open hybrid cloud - going beyond Red Hat Enterprise Linux and into emerging technologies out to the edge. Here are a few key resources for our partners to navigate recent product updates and future opportunities.

Software artifacts help you reuse your code—saving you time, energy and money. Read our breakdown of how the artifact repository JFrog works with Red Hat Satellite to manage content across your enterprise.

It's not always easy to keep up with everything that's going on at Red Hat. That's why we're introducing Red Hat Weekly News, a one-stop shop to check in on the latest news from Red Hat as published across our newsroom, blogs, podcasts, videos, customer portal and much more.

NTT DOCOMO has published a comprehensive, "5G Open RAN Ecosystem Whitepaper" describing the Open Radio Access Network (RAN) Ecosystem - OREC project in detail.  Honore LaBourdette, Vice President, Telecom Media & Entertainment Industry at Red Hat and Sadayuki Abeta, Vice President & General Manager of the Radio Access Network Development Department at NTT DOCOMO, had a joint interview with Telecom TV that explains how the OREC project can accelerate Open RAN and can help 5G intelligent RAN deployment. 

The nomination period for the 2022 Red Hat Innovation Awards has been extended to September 20, 2021 - which means there is still time for you to nominate your organization for innovative uses of Red Hat’s open source technology. 

For the 30th anniversary of the Linux kernel and the 2nd version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2), we talked to Red Hatters who have been involved with Linux since the early days. Read our interview with Red Hat's Pete Zaitcev.

In this month’s customer success highlights, we’ll share how two media companies, Verizon and Globo, used Red Hat OpenShift to manage their data and stay ahead of the market.

For the 30th anniversity of the Linux kernel and the 2nd version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2), we talked to Red Hatters who have been involved with Linux since the early days. Read our interview with Senior Software Engineer Stephen Smoogen.