Category Archives: Education, Training and Information

Koha in Book Industry Communication

2010-06-11 by mjr

Our co-op has joined Book Industry Communication as an associate member, mainly in order to voice experiences of the Koha community and ourselves about RFID tag standardisation and related sustainable development. I want us to give the Free and Open … Continue reading →

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Hello Oslo, This is Emacs Calling

2010-06-01 by mjr

The Eurovision Song Contest has been and gone with a better-than-usual winner and much of the snarkiness was on microblog sites like identi.ca this year. Search for #ESC, #eurovision or incomprehensibly-to-me #eurovison (no second i – is it spelt like … Continue reading →

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Day Against DRM, 4 May 2010

2010-05-04 by mjr

Today is the Day Against DRM, working against Digital Restrictions Management or Technological Protection Measures (TPM). I’ve two tips to help with our public disservice British Broadcasting Corporation which has consistently failed to act in the public interest and reject … Continue reading →

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Samsung N150 Netbook and Ubuntu Netbook Remix

2010-04-19 by mjr

That was a pretty good weekend. I set up someone’s new Samsung N150 netbook with Ubuntu Netbook Remix. If you like Windows, you might want to skip this long paragraph: the N150 came with Microsoft Windows 7 Starter. When I … Continue reading →

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Debian Project Leader Election Campaign Round-up

2010-04-15 by mjr

I’ve been AWOL for most of the debian project leader election campaigns this year, but I still want to vote, so I’ve been dredging the emails on the last day. Maybe someone still has to vote and reads this, or … Continue reading →

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Paypal and Ethical Business

2010-03-03 by mjr

DoctorMO is calling Paypal the Pocketing Police after this “Paypal […] decided we were scammers and took our money” comment by Daniel Stone during the Xorg foundation election discussions. Our co-op has avoided Paypal for a number of years for … Continue reading →

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An Introduction To The Debian Project by Leslie I’Anson – Tuesday, 16th February, Manchester

2010-02-11 by mjr

This talk at Manchester Free Software’s meeting is covering the question: “From the literally hundreds of GNU/Linux distributions in existence, what makes Debian special?” For our co-op, it’s that “Debian GNU/Linux, like all GNU/Linux distributions, is the product of a … Continue reading →

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SPI February 2010

2010-02-10 by mjr

The meeting agenda is already posted for tonight’s (Wednesday’s) SPI board IRC meeting which will be at 2000 UTC (an hour earlier than last month, back at usual time). It’s another pretty lean meeting and I don’t know why. Last … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Koha-Community.org

2010-02-03 by mjr

At last night’s #koha community hand-over meeting, it was felt that the LL/PTFS transfer could easily delay community control of the previous koha website for 3 months, so HLT should register a fan site for community members to put the … Continue reading →

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Critical Eye: Google, China, DNS and an Event

2010-01-25 by mjr

My Google Bugs page started off as a blog post back in 2006, but I’ve moved it to a more permanent home and started to bring it up to date. Recent additions include the China Controversy updated, a recent search … Continue reading →

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