Software Cooperative News

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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Myself and a colleague were both getting Joe-jobbed yesterday. I had an easy time telling Exim to reject mine at SMTP time, but the colleague receives mail on our only Plesk server, so it’s using qmail. I’ve noticed before that qmail admin tools are primitive and incomplete, so I looked for the appropriate [...]

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There should be a board meeting at 1900 UTC in #spi on irc.oftc.net, according to the last meeting. There’s no announcement or agenda online at the time of writing. (If only you’d elected me…)
Hopefully, a meeting will decide on issuing a statement in support of the campaign against Software Patents and supporting FACIL [...]

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Lucy Bridges writes:
“Saturday 20th September is Software Freedom Day [1]. As many of you will know, this is a worldwide event designed to promote software freedom. I am proud to announce that Manchester Free Software (like many other groups across the country and the world) will be hosting an event to celebrate.” (original)

I don’t [...]

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I concentrated on work after my return to the keyboard last week and then spent much of the weekend reroofing a shed, so today was my first day catching up with the news. Here’s what I noticed:-

One of my former sponsorees Adriaan Peeters was announced as a debian developer.
Koha roles for the 3.2 release [...]

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