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Category Archives: Free Culture

Thinking on geeking

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

There was an article in the San Jose Mercury News about my daughters and their friend.  My eldest’s reactions to the article included specifying that it was her friend who self-identified as a geek and was OK with that ID.  My daughter doesn’t self-identify that way, and her reaction got me thinking.
As with other negative [...]

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New skin, new list

Friday, February 26, 2010

Put up a new look for The Open Source Way tonight.  Graphic came from Red Hat Design and I like it.  Figured I would just put it up and try it on for size; see what opinions arise.
Also another milestone tonight, I broke open the new mailing list and sent some random messages.  I have [...]

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Freed software

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

In English we have a well-known confusion with the word/term “free”.  It can refer either to something having no cost/price, or as a reference to essential matters of liberty.
Words such as “freedom” might work, but are a bit much to say each team, and to me have the effect of hyperbole — big words chosen [...]

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Talk legalese with us – Red Hat booth Saturday at SCALE 8x

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

As of this week’s plan, Richard Fontana and I are going to be at the Red Hat booth from 2 to 4 pm on Saturday 20 February at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) 8x.
Being careful not to give legal advice, I think we’ll be there to have freeform discussions around:

How and why we do [...]

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Blowing open the doors to contributions

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

A few key pieces just fell in place and now we can easily open The Open Source Way for contributions.

All the legal bits passed muster, and the new contribution policy explains the rules.  It’s simple enough – by contributing, you agree to put your contributions under the CC BY SA 3.0 Unported.  Read the policy [...]

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Licensing my blog content as CC BY SA 3.0 Unported

Friday, February 5, 2010

I am licensing all of my blog content past, present, and ongoing under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC BY SA) free content license.  This includes my content published by the excellent Wordpress engine at iquaid.org, and my content at iquaid.livejournal.com (deprecated).
This has been on my mind for a while, and in a [...]

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Config tweaks on TheOpenSourceWay.org

Friday, February 5, 2010

Thanks to folks for finding and pointing out the configuration problems on TheOpenSourceWay.org.  I’ve still got a BIND configuration to work out, I’ll be haunting #rhel this weekend looking for help.
To get permissions to edit the wiki, I have put a human in the way (currently just me).  I’m working on getting up [...]

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Community handbook – The Open Source Way

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Introducing a community book written by a community.
http://www.TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki (read and participate)
http://www.TheOpenSourceWay.org/book (HTML, HTML single page, PDF)
This is a handbook for creating and nurturing communities of contributors.  It was originally thought of as a cookbook to provide recipes for enacting community the open source way.  It is released under the Creative Commons BY SA 3.0 Unported [...]

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Understanding opensource.com

Thursday, January 28, 2010

This week saw opensource.com kicked out of the nest and told to fly.  I’ve been watching some of the discussion around it and have some comments about a bit of confusion some folks are having.   Please pass this along.
What I see here is a new type of discussion …
… one where our experiences in free/libre [...]

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Contributor CV and recommendations

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Listening to a call about the cool stuff our Community Architecture team is doing with education (such as POSSE and opensource.com/education), I had an idea.  Is it a simple idea?  Yes.  An elegant idea?  So far.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Contributor_CVs
It’s an opt-in system to track an individual’s contributions and recommendations from others within the Fedora Project community.  (Naturally, FLOSS [...]

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