FSF’s “Social Benefit” award contenders

This year, FSF announced a new award, the “Free Software Award for Social Benefit“. Nominations will be accepted until November 30th, but what sort of projects are elegible? The award was inspired by the Sahana project, which is a free software package which was written to help distribute aid in Sri Lanka after the 2004 Read more »

Slides on FSFE and bad legislation

http://ciaran.compsoc.com/2005-10-22-dublin.html These are my slides from a talk I gave at this year’s ILUG AGM. With some changes, they could be used by anyone that wants to give a talk on current legislative threats to free software. Or if anyone would like me to give this talk at an event, if I’m available, I would Read more »