Software Cooperative News

Regular readers may remember that I stood in the board election of Software in the Public Interest, the main democratic free software corporation, a few weeks ago. Well, the result is posted with David Graham and Jimmy Kaplowitz are re-elected. Well done and good luck to both.
Thanks to the other board members for [...]

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I just asked this question over on another site and thought I’d widen it to here:-
I’m standing for election to the board of Software in the Public Interest this month, so I was wondering how many users who contribute to free and open source software have joined? If so, why? If not, what’s stopping you?
http://www.spi-inc.org [...]

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LUGRadioLive 2008 by sheilaellen (cc-by-2.0)
One aspect I didn’t mention in the LugRadio Live Event Review was how old-fashioned it seemed in some ways.
I guess I’ve got used to seeing conferences experimenting with various web2.0 toys like live-blogging, feedback walls and so on, or the excellent live video streaming of DebConfs, but it was a bit [...]

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Software in the Public Interest is a US tax-exempt not-for-profit organisation that supports a number of free software projects that I like – including debian, GNUstep and drupal – and it’s one of the most open and democratic free software organisations in the world.
SPI’s next board meeting is today (Wednesday) at 1900 UTC on irc.oftc.net [...]

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