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Category Archives: Cooperatives
Cooperatives in the New York Times
“NCBA invites you to pick the Monday, April 6th edition of the New York Times to check out the front section for a very special advertorial on cooperative business. NCBA will receive a copy of the Advertorial to place on … Continue reading
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Cooperatives-SW Board and Housing Enquiry, Bristol, 6 April 2009
With our AGM in Plymouth rescheduled until June or July, the Cooperatives-SW board will meet in Bristol on Monday. Cooperatives-SW aims to represent co-operative and mutual enterprises in the region. As with previous meetings, if you’d like to meet up … Continue reading
Fairtrade Fortnight
This week and next week are Fairtrade Fortnight. As I’ve mentioned in discussions at the Co-operative Group, there are some drawbacks to Fairtrade (most of which can be overcome by trading with co-operatives locally), but it is worth supporting fairtrade … Continue reading
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Tagged bananas, campaign, co-operatives, cooperatives, event, fairtrade, fortnight, social enterprise
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Three Releases: Debian, Co-op and Videos
Three things I really like have released recently:- Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (“Lenny”): I installed it on a laptop the weekend before going to a conference and I’m really impressed. It installed fairly neatly and was good-looking (gtk installer from USB … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives, Education, Training and Information, GNU/Linux
Tagged business, co-op, debian, fosdem, foss, lenny, linux.conf.au, open source
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The South West RDA’s Business Stakeholder Conference: Shooting the Economic Rapids
I was at this event back in November and they’ve just emailed me this week to point out the speeches and some recordings are now available online. The appointed Regional Development Agency is getting more powerful as our indirectly-elected South … Continue reading
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Tagged business, conference, public meeting, southwest rda, swrda
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Voice09 LiveBlog
After a few hiccoughs, I’m trying to gather live coverage of Voice09 in Birmingham today and tomorrow over on the software.coop site. I have access to the wifi, but picture uploads will mostly have to wait until I can bugfix … Continue reading
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Tagged conference, cooperative, social enterprise, trade fair, voice09
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The Phone Co-op AGM 2009
Yesterday I phoned into The Phone Co-op AGM 2009 and heard the reports, most of which you can read in the PDF annual report from the AGM website. There were also various questions from members, which I scribbled down as … Continue reading
Top 8 J2ME MIDP Applications
Well, in line with the Do Not Drive from the local police (and one from Gloucestershire), I’ll be phoning in to ThePhoneCoop AGM today and doing a bit of work from home. While preparing for the journey that never was, … Continue reading
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Tagged bluetooth, jabber, jabbermixclient, jmc, midpssh, mobile, phone, rss, ssh
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The Phone Co-op Workshop AGM and Voice09
On Saturday (7 February), I should be attending both The Phone Co-op AGM and The Phone Co-op Members’ Workshop before it. I’ll be asking a question at the AGM, if we can get the wording nailed down in time. Sadly, … Continue reading