Lightning Talks on TV?
A few months ago, Ryan Yewell from the Lab with Leo Laporte dropped me a note to see if I was interested in presenting a segment on the show. Each segment is about six minutes - about the same length as a lightning talk.
While I've been mostly out of town when they've been shooting, I [...]
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GPL v3 Last Call
The FSF just announced that the last draft of the GPL v3 is ready for review and comment. The FSF will hear comments for the next month and expects to officially publish the license on Friday, June 29, 2007.
To participate, visit http://gplv3.fsf.org.
Changes in this draft include:
GPLv3 is now compatible with version 2.0 of the Apache [...]
SCALE 5x: The SoCal Linux Expo 2007
Ilan Rabinovitch let me know that the SCALE team is getting started on version 5x of the SoCal Linux Expo.
In past years, SCALE has been a great community event - the ratio of promoters to real Linux enthusiasts is low and the attendees are friendly. Also, like most other Linux conferences, attendees have a strong [...]
OSCON Highlight: r0ml's Keynote
r0ml's keynote is thoroughly awesome.
Some great quotes, include:
"… the Apache web server is the tomato of Open Source …"
"Approximately 87% of all American organization use Open Source … that's _terrible_." (This comes after discussing how Americans don't eat enough fruits and vegetables.)
"Windows XP is Open Source … we have won."
(Roughly phrased on my part) "Free [...]
FLOSS Foundations Meeting Day 1
We have about an hour to go in the first day of meetings for the FLOSS Foundation's group (thanks to Allison for organizing space at OSCON.)
The discussions have been excellent so far - I only wish that we could hold them more often.
So far, we have had presentations from
Kaliya Hamlin (aka Identity Woman) gave an [...]
ApacheCon Europe Deal: See great speakers, get great books
My friends Theo Schlossnagle, Laura Thomson and Chris Shiflett are each presenting at ApacheCon Europe. They are each excellent presenters with solid content - I have seen Theo present at a previous ApacheCon, caught Laura at several OSCONs and finally saw Shiflett speak at the PHP Quebec conference earlier this year.
The deal is simple - [...]
ApacheCon EU 2006 CfP
Lars Eilebrecht writes:
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is proud to announce that ApacheCon Europe 2006 will be held at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, Ireland, June 26-30, 2006.
ApacheCon Europe is the official conference of the Apache Software Foundation in Europe. This annual event creates a unique platform for the Open Source community in Europe to [...]
About Zak Greant: Bio and Background
Hi! My name is Zak Greant and I've tired of writing things in the third person (at least for today.)
I own a strategic consultancy called Foo Associates – we help technology organizations adapt to and thrive on the electronic frontier. We're a tiny shop, but we've got great clients (like eZ Systems AS and the [...]
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ApacheCon Europe 2006 to be held in Dublin
Rich Bowen writes:
The ApacheCon Planners are pleased to announce that ApacheCon Europe 2006 will be held in Dublin, Ireland, at the Burlington Hotel, June 26-30.
Further details to follow as they are available. CFP to follow shortly. Please feel free to spread this information far and wide.
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Rhode Island put itself on the cutting edge of hot-technology uptake
last year when it became one of the first state governments to get
beyond traditional government conservatism and implement open-source
technology. The gamble is paying off: The bill for the state's rules
and regula-tions database came in at $40,000\227only $6,000 of which was
hardware costs\227and took one consultant four [...]