Tag Archives: FLOSS

Mako joins the FSF Board!

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

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, … Continue reading →

Tagged FLOSS, freedom, fsf, sfd, sfd2007 | 3 Comments

Freedom of Automation

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

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.

Tagged FLOSS, freedom, sfd2006, technology | 1 Comment

Speaking with customers

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

Tagged film, FLOSS, humanity, justblamepia, Linux, migration, monoculture, technology, windows | 3 Comments

GNOME in The 5th Wave

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

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.

Posted in General | Tagged desktop, FLOSS, GNOME, Ubuntu | 3 Comments

Firefox: Still Saving the Web!

Posted on June 17, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

Steve Jobs’ vision for the web, rendered as a pie chart.

Tagged desktop, FLOSS | 14 Comments

New Zealand Open Source Awards 2007

Posted on June 16, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

Tagged FLOSS | 1 Comment

GNOME goes WordPress MU

Posted on June 15, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

Tagged FLOSS, GNOME, WordPress | 15 Comments

Software Freedom Upgrade Rainbow

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

Although the Ubuntu developer branch quiet period was very well timed — considering the many recent Important Engagements for which a predictably-functioning laptop has been necessary — I now have the elbow-room to get back on the upgrade rainbow. What … Continue reading →

Tagged FLOSS, Ubuntu | 1 Comment

QoTD: Alberto Ruiz

Posted on May 7, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

Jeff Waugh: “AI will surpass human intelligence after 2020.” Alberto Ruiz: That’s the linux desktop year also! Jeff Waugh: Ha ha ha… Of course, now that you work for sun, that’s not funny! Alberto Ruiz: Ha ha ha ha ha … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu goes mobile too!

Posted on May 6, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

Right before we launched the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative, Intel went public with their sexy Mobile Internet Device prototypes, running Red Flag and Ubuntu. They’re Linux based, and use Nokia’s Hildon interface architecture, developed for the N770 and N800 … Continue reading →

Tagged desktop, embedded, FLOSS, GNOME, Ubuntu | 4 Comments