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 […]
Tag Archives: FLOSS
GNOME: Ten years of Freedom!
August 17, 2007 – 21:00
QoTD: Jeff Hodges
August 7, 2007 – 11:38
“Fail hard. Fail with motherfucking gusto. Succeeding, like flying, is throwing yourself to the ground and missing.” — Jeff Hodges, offering advice on how to get people to hack on your project
QoTD: Paul Nowak
July 12, 2007 – 10:25
“Software will increasingly compete on ease of use in the total software experience more than on features. The future will be more about being simple than about any other dimension. […] This is a classic case of experience changing perception and it’s got me to thinking about a seamless platform from server to desktop to […]
Mako joins the FSF Board!
June 27, 2007 – 04:05
A very welcome surprise: Mako will be reducing the average age of the Free Software Foundation Board of Directors, after the recent resignation of long-serving director Eben Moglen (and the likely departure of Lawrence Lessig in the near future).
Sadly, Mako will be leaving the SFI board, but I’m sure his involvement in the FSF will […]
Freedom of Automation
June 19, 2007 – 00:29
Jon Udell links to → his interview with Jeannette Wing about computational thinking → which reminds me of Conrad Parker’s Freedom of Automation talk (Ogg, 19M) at our Software Freedom Day event in Sydney last year.
Speaking with customers
June 18, 2007 – 21:23
Today, Pipka came home with a story about a customer who was considering moving to a 100% Windows environment because he was merely unfamiliar with Linux.
Now, I wouldn’t recommend the strategy she used in the general case — in fact, I’d find it hard to recommend it under many circumstances at all — but here’s how she began her […]
GNOME in The 5th Wave
June 18, 2007 – 00:55
Shreyas noticed that the The 5th Wave’s June 17, 2007 strip includes a homage to GNOME! Rocking!
Update: Melissa points out that UserFriendly was pretty awesome on the 17th too.
Firefox: Still Saving the Web!
June 17, 2007 – 02:11
Steve Jobs’ vision for the web, rendered as a pie chart.
New Zealand Open Source Awards 2007
June 16, 2007 – 16:05
Congratulations to Catalyst IT and the New Zealand Open Source Society for launching the New Zealand Open Source Awards!
It’s an excellent branding opportunity for Catalyst, community-building opportunity for NZOSS, and outreach opportunity for the entire NZ Open Source community and industry. They haven’t done it by half either — seven award categories, very slick website, and a […]
GNOME goes WordPress MU
June 15, 2007 – 19:15
Last Friday I completed the migration of GNOME Blogs (nicknamed ‘blogo’) to WordPress MU with an announcement to the GNOME community and a thank you to the WordPress community a couple of days later. The first post details some of the features we launched with.
But the best feature…?
Now anyone with a gnome.org, gtk.org or gimp.org […]
