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In Berkeley or Boston? Want to work for a co-op?
Our four comrades over at Quilted co-op are looking for a new worker-owner, either a project manager, a developer (Drupal, WordPress, Rails, Perl and/or PHP), or a designer based in Berkeley or Boston. The eventual plan is to all be … Continue reading
Posted in Web Development
Tagged co-op, coop, cooperative, designer, developer, Drupal, perl, php, project manager, quilted, rails, web, wordpress, worker
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Get the Survey Monkey Off Your Back
I’ve been asked why I dislike surveymonkey surveys, I don’t want to reply fully in that forum (because it’s off-topic there) and I want to publish this for your feedback now. surveymonkey really frustrates me. In short, it’s often confusing, … Continue reading
Posted in SPI
Tagged askpeople, co-op, doodle, google docs, limeservice, limesurvey, surveymonkey
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Unable to Register .CN Domains
Our co-op registers domain names for others. Like most registrars, we now cannot register Chinese (.cn) domains. There’s a bit of background discussion on WebmasterWorld. While it’s always disappointing to offer fewer services, I don’t think we’ve ever registered a … Continue reading
The Koha Company-go-round
While I was under snow last week, the world saw a flurry of Koha company news. We found out that PTFS is to acquire LibLime and ByWater Solutions and BibLibre are partnering for the U.S. With the past ByWater Solutions … Continue reading
SPI January 2010
A clear announcement went out in plenty of time and the meeting agenda is already posted for Wednesday’s SPI board IRC meeting which will be at 2100 UTC (an hour later than recently). As I write this, it’s a pretty … Continue reading
Anyone with TLC for Mac VLC?
VLC is free and open source portable media player software that supports a lot of formats and inputs and can also convert and stream. I think it’s been pretty useful for users who didn’t like MPlayer for whatever reason. Nicole … Continue reading
Goodbye to an LLP Co-op
The Tool Factory closed its doors on 31st December 2009. As you may remember, our co-op is one of few LLP co-ops and we mentioned 2amase LLP in our case study as one of the others. 2amase were closely linked … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives
Tagged co-ops, cooperatives, events, foss, free software, llp, open source
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Koha Blogs Page Back Online
The Koha Community Blogs was broken over Christmas. It’s now back online and using the same collection of feeds as the microblogging services. A full list of Koha Social Networks is on the wiki.
2009 Top 10 Software Cooperative News
Amazon Kindle Un-selling Books was the most-viewed news item on my blog this year. Once again, a lock-out/bad-business story takes the top spot. I don’t think that one got as much coverage in the mainstream media as they usually do, … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives, Koha, SPI, Wordpress and Blogs
Tagged #ukgovOSS, amazon, apache, authentication, board, Cooperatives, foundation, httpd, j2me, kindle, midp, pam, richard, rothwell, security, SPI, ssh, top 10, windows 7
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