Category Archives: SPI

Software in the Public Interest

Possible new word: attendocracy?

2009-06-29 by mjr

I think I’ve just made up another new word (to go alongside my pet hate lawyerbomb): attendocracy a whole society run mainly by meeting attendees. Usually, the meetings are basically non-discriminatory (all members may attend) and attendance is itself enough … Continue reading →

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SPI June 2009 and WsM BikeWeek Breakfast

2009-06-17 by mjr

The monthly board meeting of Software in the Public Interest will take place on irc.oftc.net #spi tonight (Wed 17 June) at 20:00 UTC. The meeting announcement was posted and there are indeed minutes to approve, a financial report, and nothing … Continue reading →

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SPI May 2009

2009-05-20 by mjr

The monthly board meeting of Software in the Public Interest will take place on irc.oftc.net #spi tonight (Wed 20 May) at 20:00 UTC. The meeting announcement was posted and there are indeed minutes to approve, a financial report, and a … Continue reading →

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Legal aspects of FOSS in the enterprise

2009-04-20 by mjr

Raphael Bauduin emailed me to say that he’s organising an event for Profoss: “(28 april in Brussels) will take a look at legal aspects of the use of FOSS in professional environments. http://www.profoss.eu/events It will bring interesting information for most … Continue reading →

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SPI April 2009

2009-04-15 by mjr

The monthly board meeting of Software in the Public Interest will take place on irc.oftc.net #spi tonight (Wed 15 April) at 20:00 UTC. The meeting announcement was posted, but a bit late, so there’s another discussion about that going on … Continue reading →

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Why is public and charity money paying for the private sector’s marketing?

2009-04-08 by mjr

The workshop I went to recently and the ICT Champions in general (“Website Under Development” – release early, anyone?) seem to be funded by public and charity money. As I mentioned, the worst thing was all the needless promotion of … Continue reading →

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Making infrastructure organisations more resilient Taunton 20 March 2009

2009-03-24 by mjr

Last Friday, I spent most of the day at this NAVCA ICT event in Taunton. (There’s another similar one in York this Friday if you’re interested.) The event was a sandwich, with a Steve Bridger social media session as the … Continue reading →

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SPI March 2009

2009-03-18 by mjr

The monthly board meeting of SPI will take place on irc.oftc.net #spi tonight (Wed 18 March) at 20:00 UTC. Members may have seen that the meeting announcement was posted, but a bit late and with a misleading subject line. This … Continue reading →

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ippimail to close – what now for friendly webmail?

2009-03-04 by mjr

I was disappointed to read that ippimail announced “the closure of the ippimail project […] barring a miracle we will take the site down at noon on the 1st May 2009, UK time.” I first covered the ippimail social enterprise … Continue reading →

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New #ukgovOSS Action Plan

2009-02-27 by mjr

Earlier this week, Tom Watson, Cabinet Office Parliamentary Secretary, published the Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan. It’s had a pretty mixed reaction, with mild scepticism (niq’s soapbox: Is gov.uk going open-source?) being the average reaction from … Continue reading →

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