As a present, I brought a box of Marcolini chocolates on my trip to the first international GPLv3 conference. I had to get up at 04h30 to get the first bus of the morning to the airport. I arrived at the hotel lobby at 20h00 local time and there was Georg Greve "Ah, you’re just Read more »
I think this is going to be big. Richard Stallman and Bruce Perens are confirmed speakers, and Spires in Belfast is confirmed as the venue. "FOSS Means Business" is the title and it’s a whole-day event. It’s tailored to particularly attract to IT decision makers in medium-sized businesses and in public administration – but the Read more »
There is a story going around the newswires that iTunes contains spyware that sends information about your music listening to Apple. (iTunes is the software interface to iPods.) Many articles are commenting that there is a trade-off: your personal information is not personal, but you get better music suggestions from Apple. This does not have Read more »
Sometimes, when I meet other activists, they ask me what I do, and I never have a good answer. I usually say something vague about building support for things among policital groups, and assisting other campaigns that need help and that are doing things that benefit free software, but then the person asks "Yeh, but Read more »
Until now I’ve been using either HTML or MagicPoint for my presentations, but neither is perfect. I like the simplicity of MagicPoint, but making the fonts nice is difficult and its word splitting and line wrapping can be unpredictable. After asking a few people, and after discussing it on LWN.net, it seems Latex-beamer is many Read more »
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 »
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 »