May 29, 2011 4:13pm GMT
This blog is not aimed at those people who try to speak in languages other than their own native language. For those people I have the greatest respect. This blog is aimed at people who do not take the time and effort to communicate well in their own native language. My niece teaches high school English in the Pennsylvania school system, and tells me that some of her students do... more »
Campus Party - USAMay 13, 2011 10:48pm GMT
A couple of times I have written about attending an event called “Campus Party”. Started in Spain more than a decade ago, it is like a LAN party, but a LAN party on steroids. Thousands of college age (and “a little older than college age”) technologists bring their favorite systems to a large convention hall and spend a week showing each other what they are doing and exchanging ideas. Eas... more »
"May I help you?" - Conference Slides From POSSCONMay 08, 2011 11:19pm GMT
In March I attended POSSCON in Columbia, South Carolina for the second time. I wrote about their conference last year, and this year's conference was slightly bigger and even better than last year. This year they had four tracks, Leadership, Technical, Healthcare and Education. For those of you who have not been to Columbia, it is the place where people smile at you when they greet y... more »
Do not say "Closed Source" or "Proprietary Software"....instead say "Legacy Software"May 05, 2011 5:04pm GMT
I was at the Red Hat Summit in Boston yesterday and while I was sitting in a session about “Open Source” I started thinking about some of the terms the community uses.Words are very powerful, of course, and many marketing campaigns have been based on a catchy phrase, or a turn of words.I listened to the speakers in my session talking about “Free Software” and “Open Source”, but the worst that t... more »
Off Topic: A small issue with Facebook OR "Do people at Facebook really use Facebook?"May 02, 2011 12:52pm GMT
This is a little “off topic” for a Free Software blog, but since a lot of my Free Software friends use Facebook, I hope that others will suffer me writing about this today.I have a lot of Facebook “Friends” (at this time, approximately 3300). Maybe this is not as many as some people, but it is definitely more than most.Many of these people I “befriended” mostly because they sent me a request. F... more »
Mea CulpaMay 01, 2011 12:31pm GMT
I believe that one of the measures of an adult is to have the ability to admit “I was wrong”. While I am not happy when I am wrong, I take pride in the fact that I often give people the benefit of the doubt, and when I am wrong I freely admit it. I believe that once you admit your mistake, and apologize if necessary to any offended people, you can then move on to the next task and try to... more »
FLISOL: A Continent (and more) of Free and Open Source Software Celebration: April 9thApr 06, 2011 7:09pm GMT
FLISOL, the Latin American Festival of (Free and) Open Source Software Installation will be celebrated throughout Latin America and the Caribbean this Saturday, April 9th, 2011, typically between 0900 and 1800 hours (9 A.M. and 6 P.M. for Microsoft users), but you should check your local dates and times on the FLISOL website.For the past months I have been receiving emails, tweets, Facebook eve... more »
