Yeah, we’re a bit busy around here and all of my writing juice has been dry of late. Part of this has been doing a serious effort with homeschooling for the girls this year. They did a sample of regular day school at the start of September, decided with us that the family is happier […]
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Urban farm fall slide
30-Oct-09Today I had an exchange via Twitter with my friend Sean, who reminded me about a point we’ve previously discussed face-to-face, “… #opensource #FAIL meter http://bit.ly/nBcYz too Linux-centric – doesn’t apply to Java, Web or Ajax …” My point back was, “… It applies if you want to deploy on #Linux … don’t #h8 your […]
Subtle circles of oppression
05-Sep-09One of the tricks (or facts?) of oppression is that those who are oppressed most often turn on each other rather than the person or symbol of the oppression. When the youngest in a family has received abuse or even just ‘rules’ shuttled down from the parents, that youngest turns to the family dog or […]
Celebrating spousal abuse
30-Aug-09Last night I finished watching ‘McLintock!‘ on YouTube, a later-career (1963) John Wayne film about a cattle baron with a feisty wife. It’s also a celebration of spouse abuse. One character, near the end of the movie trying to convince Wayne that it’s time to give his wife a good spanking, “My father said, when […]
OpenSource World as predicted
19-Aug-09I was a bit melancholy last week when OpenSourceWorld was happening in San Francisco. I have barely missed this event since I had my mind cracked open in 2001. But I stood firmly by my boycott of the event. If they were going to act ashamed of and stupid about the open source projects and […]
Chris Dawson, I understand you are concerned about your school system being sued by the RIAA in your post, “Let me say it again: Stop sharing music!” But spreading nonsensical fear and misinformation isn’t the way to do it. It seems an odd choice to restrict academic openness and freedom for the sake of bad […]
Thanks to this dent from the Creative Commons team, I reviewed some tools about copyright and fair use. The tools cover libraries making reproductions, instructors performing or displaying works, and an overall tool that helps you determine what is or is not in the public domain. Very useful for instructors who might otherwise be tempted […]
Alfresco packaging for Fedora
01-Aug-09Alfresco is one of the applications I’ve heard regular chatter around, “It would be great if it were packaged for Fedora.” In fact, the breakdown of JARs and some of the dependencies for Alfresco was one of the starting actions of the Fedora ISV special interest group. Do you have any interest in seeing Alfresco […]
A whole first day and whole event full of observations, rich moments, and lots and lots and lots of value. What else can you expect when you get together 200+ self-identified community organizer types? People are active, engaged, energetic, enthusiastic, approachable and approaching, and fully responsible. During the event, and now following, I did my […]
Today I was inspired to send the below email to fedora-docs-list; more details following the quoted email. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:07:24PM -0400, David Nalley wrote: > Simon passed me (and I just put up) the fedora specific Zikula modules: > > To get the source: > git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fedora-zikula.git > > Included […]