Last week was the GPLv3 conference, and right now I’m at GUADEC, both of which were in the provence of Barcelona. The GPLv3 conference, in Barcelona city, went really well and the whole thing was recorded on video by Sean Daly. Raw audio should be ready by Friday, so some of us will start working Read more »
Everything’s in place for the conference this Thursday. If you’d like to gives some last-few-days help by informing others that this is happening and will be great, you could use the text from FSFE’s announcement: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/announce/2006-June/000082.html . Here’s the programme: June 22nd programme: presentations: Time Thursday, June 22nd 10:00 Registration of participants 10:30 Georg Greve: Read more »
A fortnight ago was the annual General Assembly meeting of FSFE. I’m not a member of the GA, but I was invited as an observer since I’m working full-time with them. The venue was in Manchester, England, and there were England flags everywhere. I was worried that maybe this was a sign of a new Read more »
If you’re coming to Europe’s international GPLv3 conference on June 22nd and 23rd in Barcelona, registration is required. Email oriordan@fsfeurope.org and put "GPLv3 registration" in the subject of the email. You’ll get a reply within 24 hours. Details are still appearing on the event’s webpage (linked above).
Walking from the communal kitchen back to my apartment, I glanced out a window and saw a couple that I recognised out on the street. I’ll call them John and Jane here. I hadn’t seen them in a year and nine months. They were looking up at the window where I was standing. When I Read more »
Full details are now online for the 3rd international GPLv3 conferece. The venue is the Aula 1, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). Centrally located, it is near Plaça Catalunya and Les Rambles. Day 1 will have the major, general presentations. Georg Greve will open, Richard Stallman will present an overview of the changes Read more »
Here are 10 free software projects that remind me that giving everyone the freedom to tinker produces great projects. Rockbox A group of developers wrote some GPL’d firmware for Archos digital music players, and then they started porting it to similar devices. So you can customise the display, install the games they wrote, add the Read more »