Monthly Archives: December 2007

Gathering questions for Linux Australia committee candidates

December 17, 2007 – 01:48

In order to facilitate a more active discussion with candidates for the Linux Australia committee than we’ve had in previous years, I’m gathering questions from the community in order to pose them in one email. This helps to reduce the chaos on the mailing list, puts a concise set of questions to candidates, and results […]

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links for 2007-12-13

December 14, 2007 – 05:17

Airport anger: man sculls litre of vodka
“A man nearly died from alcohol poisoning after quaffing a litre of vodka at a German airport security check instead of handing it over to comply with new carry on rules.” — All balls, no brains.
(tags: airport security alcohol vodka germany doofus)

drawing conclusions is left as an exercise to the reader
Very […]

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Cliques, invitations and meritocracies

December 13, 2007 – 12:40

So am I paranoid? Are invite-only events a necessary evil? Or should I let my curiousity overcome my principles? Hey, maybe one of those web 2.0 types could help me enable comments on my blog… — Rusty Russell, The foocamp clique?
… so I wrote down some of my musings for Rusty in an email, but then another discussion […]

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Live podcast interview about GNOME, OOXML, etc.

December 4, 2007 – 19:44

Last week I suggested to Bruce Byfield that a podcast interview might be a good way to put a human face (okay, okay: voice) on some of the GNOME-related issues currently being debated in some quarters of the community.
Thanks to support and interest from Linux.com, we now have some cool infrastructure for it, including web based […]

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