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The MeeGo Comeths
A few weeks ago, Nokia and Intel announced a merger of the Maemo and Moblin projects. The resulting platform shocked the world. OK, it only shocked the communities (the third amigo) involved. Yours truly wanted to blog about it badly weeks ago. But I apparently never got the knack of timing and priorities just right.…
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Red Hat is Community?
I don’t do this often, but I must say Red Hat’s new ad is pretty rad. Now Red Hat isn’t the only ones building community. But this one video explains Red Hat’s modus operandi. And it is quite catchy!
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RMS Does Toronto
Yesterday I got to finally meet Richard Stallman (RMS) in person. And yes, he is a way cooler dude than many in the “open source” gang say he is. The FSF announced a while back in a press release, that RMS would be speaking at UofT on the topic of copyrights in a networked world.…
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Building a Community
Ok. Aaron Seigo of the KDE project is a genius. He really is. Not only does he lead the absolutely revolutionary Plasma project in KDE, but he also knows what he is talking about. Anyway he wrote a kickass article about how to build a community in open source. And I’m too lazy to write…
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Why Ubuntu is Important for Me…
So Jono Bacon, Ubuntu community leader (and mister communitizing the community using community tools 😀 ) asks why Ubuntu is important to me. In my case this would be why is Kubuntu important to me, but then we will be arguing over semantics. Yes, the freedom Ubuntu brings into my life is one reason why…