Supporting Development of Norway's Electronic Frontier
Some months ago, around the time of the 2007 eZ Conference, I started working with Tor-Arne Bellika (from Innovation Performance AS) and Aleksander Farstad (from eZ Systems AS) on a series of projects centered around helping to develop Norway's electronic frontier.
The projects are diverse and broad in scope. They range from developing a Free Software [...]
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Free as in Independent: Norway's Progressive Stance on Free Software and Open Source
In a few hours Heidi Grande Røys, the surprising Norwegian Minister of Government Administration and Reform, will be in the city of Drammen to launch the first of what will be several national centres of expertise for Free Software and Open Source.
This first centre is meant to provide public bodies - especially Norwegian municipalities - [...]
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Just missed the first ROSI/Liberatica live meeting
Lucian and many of the other participants in ROSI got together for a face-to-face meeting in Brasov, Romania. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend - I was having fun today with my eZ colleagues at our annual face-to-face meeting in Skien. However, despite some bad timing, it seems that everyone still had fun - [...]
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Steal This PHP Vikinger Announcement
The PHP Vikinger is a community-driven PHP event that will be held in Skien, Norway from June 24th to 25th. Like the famous Foo Camp and Bar Camp, PHP Vikinger is driven by its attendees. The people who come choose and present the sessions at the event.
Attendance is by a mix of invitation and registration. [...]
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PHP Vikinger Invitations Emailed
I just sent out the invitations for the PHP Vikinger event. My method for choosing who to invite was pretty simple - I chose people listed in the the PHP and PEAR credits who I had written personal email to in the last few years.
Nepotistic? "Nay", say I, "Nepotastic!" I know that the people I [...]
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PHP Vikinger
eZ publish lives and dies by PHP. When all is right in the PHP world, it makes our lives a lot easier at eZ systems.
Given that PHP doesn't cost a thing and we only employee a few PHP hackers, we wanted to show our gratitude to the PHP community for its awesome work over the [...]
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Machine-readable licensing blocks
One of our recent activities at eZ has been to rework our licensing. While most of the changes have been related to improving the agreements involved (simplifying, internationalizing, improving the legal robustness, etc.) we plan to make some changes to how we attach licensing information to our source code.
The basic plan is to drop in [...]
eZ systems coming to (North) America
When I started at eZ systems, one of my early conversations with the headquarters team was about how to serve the markets in North American. I advised that we follow the well-beaten path to Silicon Valley; send over a few solid team members from our HQ in Skien, integrate them into a strong team [...]
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eZ Conference 2006 Call for Papers
The Call for Papers for the 4th annual eZ Conference has just opened. We are looking for high-quality proposals for presentations on and related to eZ publish and Free Software.
The event will be held from June 20 to June 23, 2006 in Skien, Norway.If you are interested in attending or presenting, visit http://ez.no/company/news/ez_conference_2006_call_for_papers for more [...]