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Comment on Freed software by quaid

quaid — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:30:10 +0000

Yes, liberated software is a bit less ambiguous to the ear than freed, in the case where the ‘d’ is not heard by the other person. (That is, someone might hear you saying “free” and be back to the original confusion.)

The “-ed” continues to have the problem Nicu brings up in the first comment, albeit in a more dramatic way (now that I think about it.) Also, if the “-ed” is dropped, it becomes an action, “liberate software,” which is pretty cool.

(When I was a kid, there was a slang usage where “to liberate” meant “to lift, steal, borrow, take, move to another location, prank”. For example, one might liberate a STOP sign and hang it in front of the word “war” or “County Government”.)

Okay, I think we’re making progress here but still not out of the woods. I’m less happy than when I started (and thought I had a solution), but I am bouyed a bit by the potential for a genuine solution.

Comment on Freed software by David Strauss

David Strauss — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:16:07 +0000

Whoops, I put “Liberated Software” as my name. For some reason, I thought the first field was a comment title.

Comment on Freed software by Liberated software

Liberated software — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:15:13 +0000

I’ve taken to calling some FOSS projects “liberated software” as a less-ambiguous equivalent to “libre software” (as in FLOSS).

Comment on Community building is down to Earth – a setiQuest Summit update by quaid

quaid — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:58:34 +0000

Bingo. I think I find myself in the middle here, but I don’t have any more answers than “follow the open source way” and ask lots of questions. At the Summit, I agreed to form a working group on architecting a community leadership council/board of some sort. Something that can get in to a position to start fielding questions, guiding decisions, and making a process to replace itself with something selected from/by the open community ASAP.

I’ll write about things as I go here, especially any of the communication channels that arise. My method, in case it isn’t clear, is to follow what we’ve written in http://theopensourceway.org – I’m just slow to get started, which is why you haven’t heard much from me.

Comment on Community building is down to Earth – a setiQuest Summit update by Anders Feder

Anders Feder — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:08:48 +0000

I’m confused. It is pretty hard to figure out where this project is going in terms of management. Is there a ‘working group’ and/or a ‘board’? Have you been in touch with the setiQuest staff since SETICon or will you be at a later point in time? Thanks,

Anders Feder

Comment on It’s time to help organize the next session of Fedora Students Contributing aka Summer Coding by Fedora Weekly News 241, Micro trend software

Fedora Weekly News 241, Micro trend software — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:51:47 +0000

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Comment on OSCON and CLS 2010 highlights by quaid

quaid — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:11:21 +0000

There was no video of myself, but I’ve heard of video being posted in the past. I don’t think they try to record all sessions in any way.

Comment on Happy birthday Ray by Seth Vidal

Seth Vidal — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:13:07 +0000

Excellent. I read and reread collections of bradbury’s short stories year after year. Just love them.

Comment on OSCON and CLS 2010 highlights by Michael

Michael — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:07:41 +0000

I assume that no video of the conference will be availiable ?

Comment on Diversity check by quaid

quaid — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:34:30 +0000

One thought that has come up for me around this …

I do a lot of my diversity check thinking by reading excellent resources, such as the Geek Feminism wiki:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/

Too many people fall in to the way of speaking about stereotypes that exclude 50%+ of their audience. For example, the “so simple your mother can use it” that has almost become a cliche, yet is truly highly offensive.