Software Cooperative News

I think I’ve just made up another new word (to go alongside my pet hate lawyerbomb):

attendocracy
a whole society run mainly by meeting attendees. Usually, the meetings are basically non-discriminatory (all members may attend) and attendance is itself enough to give one power, but those not at the meeting are positively ignored (no postal ballots [...]

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Well, what passes for a heat wave in England: “an average threshold temperature is 30 °C by day and 15 °C overnight” according to the Met Office: Heat-Health Watch.
So, I’ll be following HOWTO not melt – keeping cool at midsummer again. Anyone got any new tips or tricks for 2009?
Finally, one of TTLLP’s full-timers [...]

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As you may remember from past problems with joe-jobs, TTLLP still has a few (maybe only one left?) qmail servers rattling around. The comments on spam-filtering suggested a few possibilities for easing matters.
As I wrote I would, I gave spamdyke a go. Maybe the out-of-the-box configuration isn’t right for me and maybe I [...]

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The monthly board meeting of Software in the Public Interest will take place on irc.oftc.net #spi tonight (Wed 17 June) at 20:00 UTC. The meeting announcement was posted and there are indeed minutes to approve, a financial report, and nothing else.
By the way, can anyone tell me how to get a copy of the [...]

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Bike and Co-op
It’s biiiiiiikeweeeeek!</noddy>
Once again, I’m supporting BikeWeek. I generally use a bike as the first leg of my work journeys, although my company doesn’t have a “Green Travel Plan” yet. It’s mainly the time taken writing such things which has stopped it. I think we’re in favour of such ideas. [...]

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