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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

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What’s So Social About Social Enterprise?

Conference This afternoon, I’ll be at What’s So Social About Social Enterprise? in Bristol. In general, I’ll be trying to support the idea that TTLLP and cooperatives in general are necessarily social enterprise. I may ask a few questions about … Continue reading

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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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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

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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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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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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

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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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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

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