The long march to a better blogging platform has reached a new milestone. With the new portal, based on eZ Publish, we are able to offer a more solid blogging system with more features, like trackbacks, comments, easier image upload, and a clear path of development. FSFE is working directly with the eZ team to develop a more complete tool.

We have added also forums for the reason to help the Fellows to discuss and get together in many-to-many conversations. Any comment and request is appreciated: feel free to post them and we will try to provide answers.

Probably there are still some nasty bugs that we didn't squash: we ask for forgiveness in advance 🙂 The migration process was very difficult and we did the best to keep all the content intact. If you are missing something you can report it in the forums or you can help yourself copying the old content from http://plone.fsfe.org (same login data as usual). The old plone site will stay online until 31st of December.

Thank to all Fellows for your kind support.

“Everybody Loves Eric Raymond” is an online comic. It depicts the real lives of Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond and Linus Torvalds as accurately as comedically possible. Their real lives, which include living together in a house, with dynamic dimensions, without their wives or girlfriends.
We at FSFE love this strip, so when we saw that the author, John Leach, is looking for new characters we thought that the Fellows can help. Send a picture of you wearing your "plussy" t-shirt to lovesraymond@gmail.com. Here is the original request of John:

I’m caving in to pressure and am planning to introduce some new
characters. I need new bodies to do this. This is where you, and the
power of creative commons/free culture, comes in. If you have a digital
camera, an example of typical geeky attire, and a hilarious human body
then you can help. Dress in the aforementioned attire, have a friend
take a few photos of you posing in typical comic-strip stances, send
photos to lovesraymond@gmail.com (only send photos here.  fan/hate mail should 
always go to eler@geekz.co.uk.)

You agree to license your photos under a Creative Commons Attribution
License so I can use them quite freely. Ensure you are very well lit;
try outside in daylight. Try to get the white balance set right. Try to
stand in front of a plain uniform background, or at least one in clear
contrast to your clothing. The rest is up to you.

After months of work and waiting, the eZ portal is now getting to the point that it could be installed on cavendish.

Now we will need to smoothe the edges and make sure to fill the content from one into the other…