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 […]
Category Archives: Free Culture
Config tweaks on TheOpenSourceWay.org
05-Feb-10Thanks 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 […]
Community handbook – The Open Source Way
02-Feb-10Introducing 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 […]
Understanding opensource.com
28-Jan-10This 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 […]
Contributor CV and recommendations
28-Jan-10Listening 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. […]
Hey, marketeers, look over here!
09-Nov-09The Fedora Marketing project is an intentionally open marketing effort. It is getting some stride in showing how a volunteer contributor community can do marketing amongst the most popular Linux distribution family (Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and friendly rebuilds). Fedora Marketing is finding a way to work with, instead of against or in ignorance […]
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 […]
It is once again my happy duty to help shepherd Fedora content to a better licensing position (as I did three years ago.) We previously moved Fedora documentation from the GNU FDL to the OPL, moving the wiki content to the OPL at the same time. This current relicensing is very important for the Fedora […]
Truly free homeschool software
22-Jun-09Recently I’ve been seeing articles about homeschoolers using free software: Free homeschool software: Probably the best conjunction of words that a homeschooling parent has heard since they found out that their child is going to summer camp. Why shouldn’t it be? Getting more for less is as American as homeschooling itself. I’ve commented on several […]