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  • Open Source Event – LugRadio Live 2007

    I received a request over the weekend to promote this year’s LugRadio Live. Last year’s conference line-up looked pretty great, and this year looks excellent too. I gather from conversations with one of last year’s speakers that its got a DebConf-like feel (meaning its a laid back but interesting event with lots of beer), although…

  • Designing a New OSI

    Stanford Professor David Kelley is one of those rare individuals who has successfully added a new way of thinking to Western Thought: Design Thinking. Indeed, the National Academy of Engineering recognized him for nothing less than “affecting the practice of design.” I have come to have great respect for the process of design thinking that…

  • An Open Source Event – OSSCamp Delhi

    kinshuksunil writes to tell us about an upcoming free Open Source event in Delhi… Information is available at http://www.osscamp.in/OSSCampDelhi. While I can’t vouch personally for this event, I attended the very first barcamp and I have to say that I’m increasingly loving the whole idea of unconferences. Glad to see students in India starting to…

  • Open Source Events – Offer To Publicize

    Here at opensource.org we get lots of spurious requests for “link exchanges”…what do firearms have to do with Open Source? /me ducks while a thousand commenters type an answer ;-). We also get more than our share of offers from kindly Nigerians). Ours is a very popular internet destination, so it comes with the territory.…

  • Well It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…

    It was early June in 1987 when Richard Stallman announced the release of the GNU C compiler version 1.0. As I wrote in Open Sources, it was the most thrilling and most terrifying day of my life (up to that point). Having first read and lightly hacked Emacs code in 1985, having read and lightly…

  • Am I “It”?

    Yesterday I was blog-tagged by Stephen Walli. Does the fact that he tagged for other people mean that I’m not “it”? Oh well…the topic is one that interests me, and I think he started the ball rolling in an interesting direction, so I figure I’ll add my thoughts. For my money, the three ways that…

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