hackers-makers-and-open-source.md

Hackers, Makers, and Open Source

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

by Paul Graham

Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

by Peter Seibel

Makers: The New Industrial Revolution

by Chris Anderson

Just for fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

by Linus Torvalds

In this rather short but very fun book Linus Torvalds shares the story on the Linux kernel came to live and what the whole coding and open source thing is all about.

Die Hacker: von der Lust in fremden Netzen zu wildern (German)

by Werner Heine, 1985, Rowolt-Verlag

If you ever happen to come across this book, buy it - it is not printed anymore. It is an insightful book about the (german) hacker scene beginning of the 80s, its history, their ideals and methods and discusses the legal and moral questions around hacking and the "hacker revolution". And while the speed of our computers quadrupled, those topics are still as up to date as they were 30 years ago.

Plus: this books reveals in chapter 3 where the term "Hacking" actually came from. See... now you gotta get it.

Makers

by Cory Doctorow

Hackers

by Steven Levy

In The Beginning Was The Command Line

by Neal Stephenson

Hack This: 24 Incredible Hackerspace Projects from the DIY Movement

by John Baichtal

Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery)

by Charles Platt

Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets: Six Embedded Projects with Open Source Hardware and Software (Learning by Discovery)

by Tero Karvinen, Kimmo Karvinen

Making Things Talk: Using Sensors, Networks, and Arduino to see, hear, and feel your world

by Tom Igoe

The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

by Eric Raymond

Producing Open Source Software. How to Run a Successful Free Software Project

by Karl Fogel

Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

by Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, Mark Stone, Brian Behlendorf, Scott Bradner, Jim Hamerly , Kirk McKusick, Tim O'Reilly, Tom Paquin, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Paul Vixie, Larry Wall, Bob Young

Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution

by Chris DiBona, Mark Stone, Danese Cooper

The Business and Economics of Linux and Open Source

by Martin Fink

Succeeding with Open Source

by Bernard Golden

The Success of Open Source

by Steven Weber

Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution

by Glyn Moody

Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

by Joshua Gay, Richard M. Stallman

Next Generation Democracy: What the Open-Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change

by Jared Duval

Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook

by Michael Lopp

Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

by Michael Lopp