Today more than ever, it is important for women and girls to use technologies to improve their lives, especially in Central America.. In spite of this, there are amazing women from all the region, who write primarily about technology and who try to make a difference in the lives of women.

"October marked the beginning of a planning phase in FSFE. As well as planning our campaigns for next year, we've been working on some actions for around the upcoming festive season. Alongside the internal discussions, we've been asking the community for ideas when we go to events or hold Fellowship meetings.

In this interview we talk with Adam. In specific, we talk about: * What’s new in the latest Mandriva release * Relating directly to the users instead of the developer community * Differences between user priorities and developer priorities * Deciding what should be included in the distribution * What will become of the “year of the Linux desktop” idea?

It's actually kind of unfortunate that many of the folks who work on providing OpenSource software don't get the recognition, or at least the respect they deserve.

Last Day @ foss.in 2008 ............................

I've written before about the increasing uptake of, and innovation around, free software in Russia. Here's another fascinating experiment, involving the Vladivostok State University of Economics and Services, which is giving students netbooks running the Mandriva distro:

Some of my friends told me that my racism against Microsoft is growing too much, that I started hating Novell because they're working with MS, and because I keep posting the "sudo apt-get remove --purge common libmono0" everywhere I go, and so on..

FSF India condemns the attack on free software activists who were criticizing Novell in a nonviolent and legitimate way.

Two of the FSF India board members, Dr V. Sasikumar and Mr M. Arun, joined other free software activists to protest against man-handling of peaceful free software campaigners. This protest was also stopped by authorities in an authoritarian and undemocratic manner.