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7 signs of a great open source project manager

opensource.com - Thu, 06/18/2020 - 15:01

Project managers go by various names—for example, scrum master, delivery manager, and project coordinator—and have various styles. Yet they all have the same root objectives: to coordinate their team's work as well as that of external and internal teams and to remove any blockers that could hinder a project's implementation. Each project manager has a unique management style, but there are some universal traits that make a great project manager stand out.


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Play with virtual Legos using open source tools

opensource.com - Thu, 06/18/2020 - 15:00

My childhood consisted of about 20% Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) and 80% Legos, with a pretty strong crossover of the two. I wasn't allowed to actually play D&D for a variety of reasons, but through some mental acrobatics worthy of a level 15 rogue, I determined that building AD&D characters didn't count as playing, and recreating Dragonlance in Lego form was a pretty good approximation of the game.


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RADV+ACO Lands FP16 Features - One Step Closer To Making ACO The Default

Phoronix - Thu, 06/18/2020 - 12:02
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver's ACO shader compiler back-end has merged its FP16 related bits and in turn putting the ACO back-end very close to being enabled by default for this open-source AMD Vulkan driver...

AMD Posts New AMDGPU Patches For UVD Video Decode For GCN 1.0

Phoronix - Thu, 06/18/2020 - 06:40
One of the main blockers from AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" GPUs achieving feature parity when using the newer AMDGPU DRM kernel driver rather than the older "Radeon" DRM kernel driver has been in regards to UVD video decoding. But in 2020 it looks like that might finally change...

Intel oneDNN 1.5 Released With Non-x86 CPU Support, Initial Xe Graphics Support

Phoronix - Thu, 06/18/2020 - 04:58
Intel's oneDNN 1.5 deep neural network library has been released that is part of their oneAPI initiative and formerly known as MKL-DNN and DNNL...

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