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Posting my OSI Weekly Reports

A couple of weeks ago, I promised to post weekly reports on my OSI activities. I've done that, but not on my blog — it turns out that I have a blog on the Open Source Initiative website, which I am using for my weekly reports.
To keep up to date, visit http://opensource.org/blog/zak

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eLiberatica Abstract: Understanding Free Software and Open Source Licensing

Much to my friend Lucian's dismay, I have been sitting (a.k.a. not doing a damn thing) on the abstracts for my upcoming sessions at the Romanian eLiberatica conference.
The first abstract is easy — I will present a slightly modified version of my Age of Literate Machines presentation.
The second session will take a little bit more [...]

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April Fools Comes Early This Year

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Open Source Census Results Not Open Source?

Earlier today I wrote about the Open Source Census project, wondering what license the data collected would be distributed under.
After reading the sponsorship page for the project, I believe that OpenLogic intends to restrict distribution of the data gathered, as indicated by the following quote from the page:
Platinum sponsorship is designed for companies that want [...]

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Open Source Census

Stormy just pointed a mailing list that I subscribe to at the Open Source census project.
At a glance, the project looks well thought-out — software, documentation, legal agreements, FAQs and so on are all in order.
The only thing that jumps out at me as missing is a notice about what license census data will be [...]

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For Geeks, by Geeks: The Open Web Conference

In a binary view of the world, there are two types of of technology conferences: those run with a profit motive and those run for by technologists for technologists.
The Open Web Conference falls into the latter category. It is an event organized by the

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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 10

Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 9th to March 15th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week

Attended the

Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 9

Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 2nd to March 8th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week

Attended the Open Source Initiative's face-to-face board meeting on March 2nd and 3rd as a board observer. Additionally, I worked with some of the board members on March 1st on [...]

FrOSCon 2008 Call for Papers Now Open

David Roetzel from the FrOSCon organization team just wrote to let me know that the FrOSCon 2008 call for papers has just opened.
FrOSCon is a great, community-focused and community-run free software and open source conference. Each year it brings together hundreds of  some of the most engaged FOSS project members from across Europe and beyond.
The [...]

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350 Free Linux Computers for Northern California Schools

Last month I blogged several times about the then upcoming Alameda County Computer Resource Center and Untangle "Installfest for Schools" event.
With a good deal of support from the local free software and open source community, the event seems to have come off beautifully - working together, volunteers managed to assemble 350 working computers for schools [...]