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AmyJune Hineline is a Drupal core contributor. She currently works with the Linux Foundation as their Certification Community Architect, supporting the Certification team’s efforts in building and maintaining exams and related documentation for exam products in the Linux Foundation’s certification portfolio.
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Version Control Is Not Just for Code

Most editing problems are really problems of change management. When multiple people are editing the same document, spreadsheet, or plan, things can get messy fast....

AmyJune Hineline
December 31, 2025December 24, 2025
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Behind the Badge: Community, Process, and Care in Open Source Exams

Open source certifications are the result of months of people working together across time zones, building trust, and figuring things out as a group. This work is rarely visible from the outside, but it is what gives a credential its credibility.

AmyJune Hineline
December 29, 2025December 21, 2025
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How to encourage positive online communication in your open source community

The Drupal community uses nudges to keep conversations productive and inclusive. Threaded online conversations are a relatively new form of communication that can improve knowledge...

AmyJune Hineline
December 28, 2023December 27, 2023
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Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.

— Dennis Ritchie

Why I’ve Never Used Windows

On February 12 I gave a presentation at the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG) about why I use Linux and why I’ve never used Windows.

Here’s the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/live/uCK_haOXPFM 

David Both ATO Interview

Last October at All Things Open (ATO) I was interviewed by Jason Hibbits of We Love Open Source. It’s posted in the article “Why today’s AI isn’t intelligent (yet)“.

“systemd for SysAdmins” Now Available

May 13,2025

My latest book — a #1 New Release on Amazon — “systemd for Linux  SysAdmins” is now available from my publisher, Apress, and on Amazon.

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