THE developer of GNote [1-6], who has worked for Novell until recently, is moving to Fedora.
Read more »Spreading Freedom with "The Whuffie Factor"
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Marketing maven Tara Hunt has written a book, entitled "The Whuffie Factor", which can help Free Open Source Software communities increase their reach into the mainstream newbie world. Hunt's book is particularly useful for FOSS communities because it gives practical advice on how to maximize an org's impact on a limited budget.
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Real Environment Activists Don’t Use Windows
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Activists have their computers intruded by predatory multinationals
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REMIX now ccFree
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"The Bloomsbury Academic Press version of REMIX is now Creative Commons licensed. You can download the book on the Bloomsbury Academic page..."
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Nordic Free Software Award - nomination is open
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"The nominating period for The Nordic Free Software Award begins May 1 [...] The Nordic Free Software Award given to people, projects or organisations in the Nordic countries that have made a prominent contribution to the advancement of Free Software..."
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EU Parliament elections and Free Software
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"European Parliament election in 1 month and 4 days. The last months before elections politicians are listening very carefully to their voters. http://www.freesoftwarepact.eu has some ideas how to bring Free Software into politicians minds.
Read more »Dutch plans for Free Technology Education
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"Last Friday, 24th of April, the foundations for vendor independent ICT education in the Netherlands were laid down.
Read more »Carlos Guerreiro and Richard Stallman at the Free Software Master
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"As part of the academic activities at the master on free software that we organize together with URJC and Caixanova, which this year is taking place in the city of Vigo, we try to invite every year key members of the community, so that they can transmit their motivations, knowledge and experience face to face to the students..."
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Patents, Protests, Plebiscites, and Protecting your freedom
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"When he attended a rally in Munich this month, Richard Stallman took time out of his busy schedule to talk with our News Editor, Britta Wülfing. The conversation covered everything from Software as a Service, to patents, protests, international politics, and protecting your freedom...
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Vote for free music --- vote four Jamendo on Cnet.com!
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Jamendo, the internet platform for free and semi-free Creative Commons music, has been selected by Cnet.com as one of 100 finalists among Amazon Mp3, iTunes, Napster and all those big names.
Read more »The Kindness of strangers can defeat Proprietary Cloud Computing. Free Software Solutions
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Fashion is fickle. One day thin clients and clusters are the fashion de jour, the next it's Web 2.0, Virtualisation or distributed computing and Grids. They who live by the sword of fashion will surely perish by it but a new model has been strutting its stuff along the catwalk of web fashion and she goes by the name of Cloud Computing.
Read more »Linus on Linux: Torvalds Interview Part 2
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In part 2 of our interview, Linus talks about the process of managing kernel developer commits, selecting a revision control system and how he personally uses git.
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Quote of the Month: RMS Says "Software As a Service" Is Non-free
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"'Software as a service' means that you think of a particular server as doing your computing for you. If that's what the server does, you must not use it! If you do your computing on someone else's server, you hand over control of your computing to whoever controls the server.
Read more »KDE Brainstorm Monthly Digest - issue 1
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Hello, and welcome to the first “issue” of the KDE Brainstorm monthly digest. There are quite a number of ideas being posted on the KDE Brainstorm, and it would be nice to know how the initiative is faring.
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Is RMS Entering the Fray Again?
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The influence of RMS on the world of free software and beyond is, of course, immense. But sometimes his presence is more symbolic than real, as he seems to disappear off the map for weeks at a time, with little in the way of public statements or comments. Maybe this can be put down to the frequent travelling that he undertakes, as he continues tirelessly to spread the word about freedom.
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