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Category Archives: SPI
Do you think Directgov Delivers?
Directgov is the Government’s official website for the general public. As both a member of the public and a parish councillor, I use it fairly often to look things up. Sometimes it’s surprisingly good, but much of the time, it’s a frustrating page-hunt and leaves me going around … Continue reading
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SPI November 2009
An announcement for this meeting just dropped into my inbox with “Apologies for the lateness of this announcement; some crossed wires”. It will be in #spi of irc.oftc.net as usual, at 2000 UTC. The agenda is available online and someone … Continue reading
PDF: how can we avoid over-using Pretty Difficult Files for citizens?
With the more political/government side of my work for our co-op, I often send emails like this:
“Please can you resend the information as plain text, ISO OpenDocument, html, PDF or something else standardised? OpenOffice.org can load most Microsoft Office and save as ISO OpenDocument and PDFs. If you’re stuck … Continue reading
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Final Decision Time: Koha Foundation Options
Thomas Dukleth writes in: “Remember to vote for your choices in the final Koha foundation forming election before the poll closes on the 25th. Turnout in the final Koha foundation forming election is lower than in the previous preliminary poll … Continue reading
Posted in Koha, SPI
Tagged association, forming, foundation, Koha, organisation, poll, voting
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SPI October 2009
A board meeting of Software in the Public Interest will take place on irc.oftc.net #spi tonight (Wed 14 Oct) at 20:00 UTC. The meeting announcement was posted only yesterday, containing a proposal to hold a debian domain. The proposal says … Continue reading
Betting on British Broadband Bugfixing
High-speed internet links are something that makes FOSS development much easier, but I’m still having reliability problems with my ADSL. A fringe benefit of moving to a more open Linux-based router is that I can see what’s going wrong in more detail. But now I have to gamble … Continue reading
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SPI September 2009
Once again, the monthly board meeting of Software in the Public Interest will take place on irc.oftc.net #spi tonight (Wed 16 Sep) at 20:00 UTC. The meeting announcement was posted and there’s a proposal for an extra bank account and … Continue reading
Avon and Somerset Police’s Worrying Approach to High-Tech Crime
Last week, I wondered about Green or Pirate Party Membership and got some good comments. Thanks to all for those. There seemed a slim leaning towards the Greens and a good point made that “Pirate Party” is a very bad name in a coastal area like mine. I’ve ranted … Continue reading
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Youth Freedom and an IRC Q+A
Advertisers try to “get ‘em young” to get them buying their wares from an early age. So why don’t we advertise freedom at young people more? The younger we make them aware of freedom, the more time they’ll spend defending … Continue reading
Posted in SPI
Tagged digital, free culture, freedom, generation, gnu, software, young, youth
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