Software Cooperative News

There will be an EU crackdown on websites selling consumer electronic goods which is entirely understandable when 203 out of 369 sites appeared to break the law. (first seen on BBC News)
If you’re a shop owner, the good site and bad site examples are pretty good, while local trading standards offices advise on selling online.
If [...]

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If you’ve set up an online shop, are your product photos saying more about you than you intended?
“there’s a huge amount of potentially privacy-sensitive metadata in your typical JPEG as generated by your camera (including camera type, settings, date/time, maybe even GPS coordinates of your location, etc).”
Source: jhead – List and modify EXIF fields in [...]

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Today is Software Freedom Day.
It is also the start of British Food Fortnight. (Tip to total coverage cooperative.) There is an open day 11-3 at Thatchers Cider, near here in Sandford. (To get there from Worle by bike, leave through St Georges to Bourton, then Hewish, Puxton, Nye, over the Strawberry Line [...]

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Among other things, my webmaster cooperative is an agent for the Phone Co-op. Particularly with Free Software, cost-efficient ways of downloading data is a good companion service to have and the Phone Co-op has given a good ADSL and calls service to my own home and office for a few years now. When [...]

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Some interesting events that I’ve heard about recently, with a bit of a focus on software, cooperatives and the South-West:-

Bristol Knowledge Unconference: Friday 5th September 2008 *
Tour of Britain, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, Tuesday 9th September – other UK locations 7-14 September, itv4 7pm highlights daily *
NoseRub DevCamp, Cologne, 13.-14. September 2008
BathCamp, Bath, Somerset, 13-14th September
Bristol Anarchist [...]

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