Dear Lazyweb,
I am looking for camera recommendations. My needs aren’t that great. I just want something relatively small, takes good pictures, and I can play with manual settings when I want. The relatively small part is because I want to be able to have this in my pocket and not look like [...]
It’s coming up, the Global Bug Jam. Are you ready?
Have no fear, your friendly Michigan LoCo team will be hosting a GBJ event in Southeast Michigan where you can come learn the trade of triaging and have a great time doing so. I know from experience that their Bug Jams are great events. They even [...]
This just came across the email, courtesy of Nick Ellery:
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This week’s Hug Day will be focusing on Apt! There are currently about
127 New bug reports regarding Apt and we will be focusing on reducing
that number in addition to looking at some outstanding Incomplete and
Confirmed bugs. We’ll do this by following up with reporters,
documenting test cases, [...]
I know everyone reading this is thinking “you know, I sure would like to join some more IRC channels.” We’ll here’s your chance!
The Free Software Foundation has just registered the channel #fsf-members on Freenode. This channel is specifically for communication with other FSF associate members. So come on in and hang out! If you want [...]
That isn’t me talking, that is the Library of Congress.
The Library of Congress along with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project, and the SURFfoundation released a report (pdf) on Monday that basically states just that.
The stated purpose of the report is:
to review the current state of copyright [...]
At least in the Open Source/Open Microblog world:
Kinda funny how my quotes is complaining about what a recent Bazaar udate did to my command prompt. But, I stand by my statement: what it did is not cool at all.
Yesterday, a great project was publicly announced: Autonomo.us
Autonomous provides a framework to think about the world of Software As A Service. From the “Franklin Street Statement:”
We consider network services that are Free Software and which share Free Data as a good starting-point for ensuring users’ freedom. Although we have not yet formally defined what might [...]
Hello all,
This is now the home for all things Greg. I have a domain name now and a great person is hosting my activities here.
From now on you can find more about what I’m up to on this site (blog.grossmeier.net) and my homepage (empty for now) will be at grossmeier.net and I’ll have a wiki [...]
I thought I would pass this along for those of you interested in the Free Culture side of things*.
My coworker, Fred Beneson, has just announced the CC Salon in NYC for July. A CC Salon is to Free Culture what a LUG Meeting is to Free Software. At this salon he has lined up some [...]
I just wanted to remind everyone that this Thursday is another Ubuntu Hug Day!
I know what you are thinking: “But Greg, isn’t that the day after your birthday and the day before your nation celebrates its independence?”
Why yes, you are right, what better way to celebrate getting older and wiser along with Freedom than by [...]
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