"The second annual FSCons is about to take place in Gothenburg, Sweden the 24th to the 26th of October. I am giving a talk about Perl and debian, and there are lots of good talks this year as well as the second Nordic Free Software Award, won last year by Skolelinux. We hope you'll attend if you are in the neighborhood!"
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Scandanavian Free Software Conference
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Free Software Community Project needs Hardware
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"Manchester Free Software recently set up a free software suite at the Marbella Café at 52 Newton Street in the Northern Quarter, using machines previously used by Free Space Manchester and originally from the Basement Social Centre..."
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Open Sustainability Network Event in San Francisco, this weekend
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North by South will be participating in the Open Sustainability Network camp in San Francisco this weekend. OSNCamp is “a BarCamp style conference about free content and knowledge sharing in sustainability, international development, appropriate technology and solutions to poverty.”
It will be happening this weekend, October 18-19, at San Francisco State University.
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EMACS Tutorial: Tues Oct 21st, 5:00pm
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"Interested in learning more about EMACS? This tutorial can help you learn more about this text editor and its tips and tricks so you can code fast, better, and stronger [...] It’s the editor that can grow with you as you grow as a programmer..."
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Mozilla launches video accessibility drive
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Video and audio support will soon be built directly into Firefox, by way of the free Vorbis and Theora codecs, and Mozilla is using the opportunity to advance multimedia accessibility for hearing-impaired and seeing-impaired users.
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BillGates - Ubuntu - Linux
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A fun image of Bill Gates switching to Linux - image only
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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Released
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Just in time for its (and my) birthday, OpenOffice.org 3.0 was officially released today, after several builds had been found on the FTP sites several weeks before.
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 26
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Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral - read more and have fun
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13 nominated for Nordic Free Software Award
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13 people/projects have been nominated for the Nordic Free Software Award.
The winner will be presented October 25 at FSCONS
The nomiations are:
* Daniel Stenberg
* Kristinehamn Kommune
* Simon Josefsson
* The EJBCA Project
* Inge Wallin
* IT-Political Association
* Imendio
* Patrik Wallström
Venezuela adopts ODF as a national standard
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"Speaking at the Second ODF Workshop in Pretoria, South Africa, yesterday, Carlos Gonzalez of the National Center of Information Technologies, announced that the Venezuelan government had formally adopted ODF as a standard for the ‘processing, exchange and storage of documents’.” Venezuela joins a number of other countries who have adopted this open standard, along with Brazil, Uruguay, Sout
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"To help promote knowledge of free software that isn't GNU software distributed by the FSF, we have collected the following links to other web sites that contain free software, or is directly related to the issue of free software..."
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Foresight Kid's can inspire young minds
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Foresight Linux is best known by many as the distribution that features the Conary package management system. Perhaps soon it may become known as your child's favorite distro.
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Hackles: Funniest Comic Strip About Hacking and Linux
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With all those sad news about the global economy, it's hard not to be affected psychologically. However, if you know how to laugh in the face of danger, everything's going to be OK.
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Mozilla: We're Not Using Firefox to Track You
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Mozilla on Monday denied that it wants to use its Firefox browser to track your online activities.
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Why DFEY (Digital Freedom in Education and Youth)?
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To mark the upcoming October 19th meeting of DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education and Youth - North West) I have written a short essay about what I think DFEY exists for and why it came into being.
Let us know what you think!
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