Software Cooperative News

Cooperatives-SW is working in partnership with the Regional Infrastructure for Social Enterprise (RISE) to hold a Trade Fair with support from CDA (BRAVE Ltd.), Social Enterprise Works, Co-opportunity and Watershed Media Centre. It will be held on Monday 1 December at the Watershed in Bristol.
TTLLP will be there and I should post lots of news [...]

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I spent the second half of this morning delivering leaflets asking people to vote for the Weston Woods Path Project in today’s itv People’s Millions Big Lottery Fund competition. Just £50,000 gets a smooth, fairly flat, surfaced and edged path and takes some pedestrians off the bendy cliff-top road. Any surplus money from [...]

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It’ll be going out as a letter anyway, but broadband users who have usernames containing @phonecoop may like to read the announcement about changing uplink suppliers.
There have been some other changes at The Phone Co-op which I’m asking about this evening. More on those later.

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Since changes to Firefox made exporting bookmarks from Ice* a pain, I’m trying to find a social bookmarking site that is:-

run on free software
provides RSS feeds of new additions (pref. RSS-1, but any RSS is OK)
provides all my bookmarks for download/backup in some easy format (even an HTML page would be fine)
at least lets me [...]

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I live in one of a cluster of a dozen or so houses. As far as I can tell, none of them have any micro-generation capability (I think one has working solar panels and one has defunct panels), but we have an electricity substation and a small patch of land fenced off next to [...]

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