Be the signal » freedom http://bethesignal.org where we're going, we don't need roads... Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:15:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Great Australian Internet Blackout http://bethesignal.org/blog/2009/12/20/great-australian-internet-blackout/ http://bethesignal.org/blog/2009/12/20/great-australian-internet-blackout/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:51:30 +0000 Jeff Waugh http://bethesignal.org/?p=1617

The Great Australian Internet Blackout is a combined online and offline demonstration against imposed online censorship. We’re collaborating with Electronic Frontiers Australia (and hoping to bring on similar organisations soon) to make sure every Australian knows why this draconian policy is unacceptable.

We’re gathering steam within the online community opposed to this policy, then broadening our audience with offline outreach efforts. Our first big demonstration will be during the week of Australia Day… websites across the country with go dark for the week, and we will celebrate the national holiday by joining the traditional Australia Day public parties across the nation, wearing black (hey, it’s a “blackout” after all!) and informing our fellow citizens about the threat of imposed online censorship.

Check out the website for more info, follow @OzNetBlackout on Twitter and get involved via Facebook group and events.

Click here to view the embedded video.

]]> http://bethesignal.org/blog/2009/12/20/great-australian-internet-blackout/feed/ 3 More mainstream media love for OpenAustralia http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/12/20/more-mainstream-media-love-for-openaustralia/ http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/12/20/more-mainstream-media-love-for-openaustralia/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:15:55 +0000 Jeff Waugh http://bethesignal.org/?p=1389 Totally awesome to see Matthew Moore covering OpenAustralia’s efforts to bring the register of members’ interests to the web:

Given the fortunes spent in the nation’s Parliament, and Kevin Rudd’s professed desired for more transparency in government, it seems absurd that volunteers are left to do the job any self-respecting parliament would have done long ago.

via Interests of MPs to go online - it’s about time.

]]> http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/12/20/more-mainstream-media-love-for-openaustralia/feed/ 0 GNOME: Ten years of Freedom! http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/08/17/gnome-ten-years-of-freedom/ http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/08/17/gnome-ten-years-of-freedom/#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:00:16 +0000 Jeff Waugh http://perkypants.org/blog/2007/08/17/gnome-ten-years-of-freedom/ GNOME 10 Year Anniversary

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 the world.

Read the full press release, and stay tuned for the scrapbook wiki, which will open for all GNOME historians this weekend. :-)

]]> http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/08/17/gnome-ten-years-of-freedom/feed/ 2 Mako joins the FSF Board! http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/06/27/mako-joins-the-fsf-board/ http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/06/27/mako-joins-the-fsf-board/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:05:18 +0000 Jeff Waugh http://perkypants.org/blog/2007/06/27/mako-joins-the-fsf-board/ 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 bring the organisations even closer. Congratulations, Mako!

There’s an ever-growing list of things to celebrate on Software Freedom Day this year!

Update: Clarify Larry’s status on the FSF board.

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