Software Cooperative News

All being well, as this post appears, I’m on my bike on the first leg of my journey to LugRadiO Live UK 2008 in Wolverhampton, blasting my way past WordCampUK who daftly picked the same day. However, I plan to post a report from LRL, while Dave Briggs will post from WordCUK.
Now, shall I [...]

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One of the reasons that I didn’t post much last week was that I was contacting some of my MEPs as part of the Telecom Packet Action in order to help defend cooperative software distribution and use. This is a bit longer than my usual posts and no software is announced below, but I’m [...]

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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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Koha 3.0.0-final is very close, delayed mainly by a few serials bugs and translation updates as far as I know, but the big news recently has been Venezuela’s National Library evaluated, decided to deploy the Koha Integrated Library System — ecorrado which was very good to see.
Myself, I’m in a world of RFID-tag-related pain, which [...]

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I’ve moved to new, sponsored blog hosting which will also republish some articles from other sites that I write on. I’m doing quite a bit of Wordpress-based work now, so it makes sense for me to use it too.
I’ll be reconfiguring my other sites to point to this one over the next few days. [...]

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