You might have gathered from my article about hosting free software events, I work and am interested in the UK Voluntary/Community Sector (VCS)[1]. I also am a user and advocate of free software and I have a desire to see it used more often in VCS and non-governmental (NG) organisations.
Read more »Why non-profits should use free software (and it's not why you'd think)
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The problems with ATI graphics and Ubuntu 7.10
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I've had a Sapphire ATI X1950 Pro video card for over 30 days now, and it's crossed my mind more than once to send it back to Newegg and get an nVidia replacement.
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Firefox 3 Beta 1 now available for download
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"Please note: We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 3 Beta 1 milestone release. It is intended for testing purposes only..."
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
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FSF Accepting Donations For GNU PDF Project
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The Free Software Foundation is working to develop a set of libraries and programs that implement the PDF file format. Even non-developers can contribute to the cause.
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FSDaily supports community!
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Old age open source initiative
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Can IBM possibly solve the problems of old age with the help of some university boffins and open source software?
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It's Time to Get Over Microsoft
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Free and open source software (FOSS) advocates need to stop obsessing about Microsoft. But, just as clearly, many of them won't, if the reactions I received when I blogged about the subject are any indication.
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Unveiling the winners of the Oxygen contest for wallpapers
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With the announcement of the Oxygen Wallpaper Contest in August, we, the Oxygen Team, intended to have the KDE community give the brand new KDE 4 desktop its face - and the response was overwhelming! Artists and KDE enthusiasts submitted around 2000 high quality pictures, most of them being fantastic wallpapers.
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Nicaragua: Software Freedom Day Group Wins Award
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"Software Freedom Day, a celebration of Free Software and Open Source, announced tha the SFD group for Nicaragua won one of three top places worldwide for their efforts on bringing Open Source Software to the people.
Read more »German police union wants Linux instead of Windows
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The Berlin-based union of the German police issued a press release two days ago, where they said that their “Poliks” system to handle reports isn’t stable and reliable enough. Taking up a report into that system often would take between 30 and 90 minutes, which would be awkward. Also, the 73 million Euro system would crash far too often.
Read more »Jon "Maddog" Hall at WALC2007
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Centered on networking, this was the tenth year of the conference, which is held different places around South America each year and is given by speakers and instructors from all over the world, but mostly from Spanish speaking countries. I think I was their only non-Spanish speaking lecturer, and as such they took good care of me, assigning me an English speaking "angel".
Read more »Debian Maintainers Open Beta
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"In early August, Debian voted to endorse the concept of "Debian Maintainers" which allows contributors who, though not full Debian developers, should be allowed to maintain their own packages in the archive without requiring a sponsor for every upload [0].
Read more »Art Tablets for Krita
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The Krita donation drive has succeeded beyond the expectations of the Krita developers. Donations from all over the world made it possible to buy two Intuos graphics tablets and two art pens for the Krita developers to test their software with. The Krita developers are very grateful to the community for making this possible.
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Open source values: Consensus
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Last week I wrote about transparency as an open source value. Today, in the second of this informal series, I want to discuss the value called consensus.
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Will the biggest clouds stay open source?
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All we know right now is that 2008 will be the “year of the cloud” and that right now Linux has a good chance of powering more of those clouds than anyone else.
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