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 […]
November 18, 2007 – 17:08
“When people buy commercial software, really what they’re buying is a guarantee. You’re buying a guarantee that what you have will perform, and has been tested and there’s someone you can call up, and if things go really bad someone’s liable if something doesn’t work.” — Microsoft’s Bill Hilf Reveals Its Open Source Strategy
Of course, when Hilf says […]
September 27, 2007 – 17:38
Given the feature list for WordPress 2.3 and the very strong warnings that came with every pre-release, I figured I should actually test this upgrade before going live.
So I did my usual process of importing the tarball into my bzr branch of mainline and merging with my customised perkypants.org branch (I really ought to document this […]
September 24, 2007 – 19:18
Last week Pia and I launched the Australian Open Source Industry & Community Census, through which we aim to gather solid numbers about the local Open Source industry and community, and turn some perceptions around in the process.
If you’re an Aussie FLOSS contributor (no matter how far or how wide you roam) or if your company […]
September 13, 2007 – 02:02
Later this month Pia and I will begin a trek around the nation to host “Meet the Open Source Industry” breakfasts in every capital city. Yes, yes, all of them — Darwin and Hobart included!
While we’re doing this to promote our Australian Open Source Industry & Community Census project (which you’ll hear more about soon, […]
Pia & Jeff say thank you to Daniel for Cheese!
Fisty… Gusty… Hardon! Looks like the Ubuntu folks are returning to their tried and true business model: pr0n. Love you long time!
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“If you want to sound like a creep, add the word ‘ladies’ to the end of things you say: Thanks for coming to my show… ladies.” — Demetri Martin on his hilarious comedy album, These Are Jokes
All kudos to Canonical for selling women’s form-fitting t-shirts at their new online store — they’re smart enough to know that their brand recognition […]
Everyone’s having a party during our ten years of freedom celebration month…
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the GNOME project we are having a very special Hug Day on Wednesday, August 22nd. We will be focusing on the collaboration between the Ubuntu and GNOME projects by working on the following topics.
That’s this Wednesday, freedom lovers! […]
A one month, world-wide celebration of GNOME’s tenth anniversary begins this week, culminating in mid-September with Software Freedom Day and the release of GNOME 2.20.
During the celebration month, GNOME contributors will create a scrapbook wiki recording their ten year history, and a commemorative cookery book with “Open Source” recipes contributed by GNOME community members from around […]
