Software Cooperative News

As you may know, our webmaster cooperative is classed as a Social Enterprise by gov.uk because it has social primary aims and isn’t run for shareholder benefit – we have neither shareholders nor employees, which screws up lots of surveys. Although its workers make a little money from it, I think it’s better than [...]

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Two interesting nearly-free-software articles about Free Software for Libraries:-

May/June 2007 Library Technology Report: Open Source Software for Libraries, from ALA TechSource (recently republished under CC-By-SA)
Open Source Business Resource, August 2008: Education, Is Open Source Right for your Library?, Carl Grant (published under CC-By)

Four more libraries upgrading to free software systems:-

Delhi Public Library
Northeast Kansas Library System
Government [...]

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I was just looking to buy some online classes.  I haven’t bought one yet and here’s three ideas I think online course sellers should follow to get more customers:-

Telephone courses – it’s the world-wide web, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I want to make an international telephone call for the course.  If the course includes [...]

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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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I’d been having problems connecting my laptop to my router to the Phone Coop using a new network cable that I laid under the floor just after the new heating system was installed. It’s a 1970s building – cat-5 wasn’t installed with the original wiring and mains homeplug networking is tricky on this wiring [...]

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