Software Cooperative News

The monthly board meeting of Software in the Public Interest will take place on irc.oftc.net #spi tonight (Wed 15 April) at 20:00 UTC. The meeting announcement was posted, but a bit late, so there’s another discussion about that going on behind the scenes. The frustrating thing is that fixing the announcements doesn’t really [...]

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from BloggersUnite resources
It’s Good Friday and even if you don’t believe the stories, maybe you’d like to do some good today. Here are some things you might want to support:-

Earth Day 22 April 2009 – the two-year Green Generation initiative will culminate with the 40th anniversary of Earth Day in 2010;
petition the Prime Minister [...]

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A couple of months ago, I switched over to ThePhoneCoop’s LLU package. The new service is good so far. The ADSL is blazingly fast (I wonder if it will remain so good) and the main drawbacks so far are a lack of reverse DNS (currently escalating that one up through tech support) and [...]

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The workshop I went to recently and the ICT Champions in general (“Website Under Development” – release early, anyone?) seem to be funded by public and charity money. As I mentioned, the worst thing was all the needless promotion of certain companies’ products, so why are they promoting private products instead of being neutral [...]

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“NCBA invites you to pick the Monday, April 6th edition of the New York Times to check out the front section for a very special advertorial on cooperative business.
NCBA will receive a copy of the Advertorial to place on its Web Site on Monday and we will distribute a link so you can post it [...]

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