rants

A few days ago I decided I wanted to play with Plussy and the GIMP.  Inspired by the lack of snow in Milano, Italy, where I live, I thought of experimenting with the GAP aka GIMP Animation Package to make snow flakes fall on a Plussy with santa-hat.  You can admire the result here.  I also want to thank fence-post for his tutorial and Shoofly for the background.

Remember that the sections Fun/ Meetings/ News/ /Events and /Advocacy are writable to all Fellows: you can add your own material, play with it as you wish.  You can make the Fellowship.

Happy holidays 🙂

Florian has commented on my previous entry saying that this site misses an important feature: allowing comments from non-fellows.

He is not only right, but damn right: allowing comments from anonymous is definitely important and we want to implement this feature.  But there is a but: allowing anonymous comments translates into the need to implement something to prevent spam comments to appear on the site.  On fellowship-hackers’ issue tracker you can follow the evolution of the bug: we are only missing a plugin to akismet service.  Does anybody want to help?

Since we started the Planet aggregator for fsfe.org it became clear to me how exceptionally good bloggers Fellows are.  Take these last three posts from AlexRamon, Karsten, and Robert: it’s news that is entertaining and of high reporting value. 

This planet is definetely a must-have in everybody’s blogroll: tell your friends to add it too, they’ll see wonderful things. 

Roberto is asking the same question I am asking: 

There are many proposal definitions of Open Format,[…]So, what about a “Free Format” definition?

I have explored new terms with the list discussion in July and came up with the term I used on the brief paper I wrote on the topic: Open Unencumbered Standard.  It’s ugly, though.  I personally don’t like the term Free Standard because I really don’t want to start again the ‘open is not free’ debate: it has bored me to death already for software and I wish we could get over it.

Don’t you want to be able to say I was there at the First international meeting of the Fellowship?  In case you want to leave your mark in digital-stone, there is a page ready.  Go here and put your name, link it to your home page if you like. And in the future you will be able to say been there, done that 🙂