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  • From the End of the Beginning to the Beginning of the End

    When Eric Raymond posted the first of the Halloween Documents in 1998, it marked the end of the beginning for open source. That is to say those documents demonstrated that the logical superiority of the open source development model had penetrated the most headstrong corporate skull in the proprietary software universe: Microsoft. The fact that…

  • One Laptop Per Child in Afghanistan

    CNN reports Laptops bring lessons, maybe even peace. It’s good to see the One Laptop Per Child project back on track. To me, the most exciting thing about the One Laptop Per Child project is that it dared to challenge educational and capitalistic orthodoxy, offering an authentic platform for true experiential learning. The concept of…

  • Support Carl Malamud as Government Printer

    Please lend your support to Carl Malamud’s effort to be appointed as the Government Printer, called YesWeScan. He has a history of breaking out closed (or difficult to get) government information. I’ve known him for over 17 years, and I trust that as the printer of government documents, he will make sure that these documents…

  • UK Government Getting Real About Open Source

    In December of 2008 it was discovered that Bernie Madoff may have perpetrated a scheme that defrauded investors of as much as $50B USD. With a fraud so large, the scandal cut across a wide range of social classes, from the financial aristocracy to the merely comfortable. One of the many questions asked was “how…

  • Open source powers massive theatrical mixing console

    The latest news from Harrison Consoles (a company that pioneered the use of Linux in high-end audio applications) announces that Universal Studios has upgraded their massive theatrical mixing console with Harrison’s latest Linux automation system. The long and rather steep decline in real estate values and equities has been headline news for months. Less frequent,…

  • Looking for speaking opportunities in the Northeast, giving mapping parties in Boston and NYC

    Hey all, I’m looking for speaking opportunities in the Northeast of the US, specifically near Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, and Pittsburgh. Will talk about Open Source, Open Data, and OpenStreetMap. Thursday or Friday nights preferred. Tuesday nights not preferred. Also running mapping parties in Boston 2/14-15 and New York City 2/21-22. Follow the…

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