Category Archives: Freedom

An eventful week

By Greg | December 15, 2008

I am now safely back from the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Mountain View after a long week of planning the next 6 months for Ubuntu.
As I said in an identi.ca message: “I am just now realizing how crazy this past week was. You don’t notice it when you are in the middle.”
But now that I [...]

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Google Book Settlement

By Greg | November 8, 2008

This is old news now since it happened over a week ago, however, the continued discussion of this settlement is needed and hopefully welcomed.
I have been silent on this settlement on this site due to a few reasons (full disclosure):

I was at the Open Content Alliance’s (OCA) yearly meeting in the Presidio of San Francisco [...]

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Announcing #fsf-members on Freenode

By Greg | July 22, 2008

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 [...]

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Preservation Entities Should Ignore Copyright

By Greg | July 18, 2008

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 [...]

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Forever will I be famous,

By Greg | July 18, 2008

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.

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Are you Autonomo.us?

By Greg | July 15, 2008

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 [...]

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New York users: Free Culture Salon

By Greg | July 8, 2008

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 [...]

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Bug Hug Day - July 3rd

By Greg | July 1, 2008

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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It’s Launched! Now use it!

By Greg | June 24, 2008

The first project which I have been working on at Creative Commons is now launched.  It is one of those projects which will help everyone in the Free Culture/Open Source movement in some way.  Here it is:
Creative Commons, as a ‘movement’ (more correctly, as a part of the Open Society Movement), has many users, both [...]

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Bug Watches

By Greg | June 15, 2008

As a part-time bug triager, I’m always curious of the new tools out there that enable people to work better and more efficiently.  One such new project, which I think has some real potential, is Stephan Hermann’s Leonov project.
Another thing which I just read in my news reader was the fact that Luca Nussbaum added [...]

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