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Feb 28, 2009Free Software Projects An up-to-date overview of free software and its makers
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more »Event Report: SCALE 7x A look back at the seventh annual Southern California Linux Expo
Feb 27, 2009The seventh annual Southern California Linux Expo, held February 20-22, included a wide variety of talks on open source projects, system administration, and software development from luminaries in the open source community. This year’s conference was larger than ever and included keynotes from Bradley Kuhn, President of Software Freedom Conservancy, and Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier, openSUSE's Community Manager. Kuhn talked about concerns with Software as a Service (a.k.a. the cloud), and Brockmeier discussed ways to improve the reach of an open source project.
more »Helping Devils at Linux.conf.au
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more »Live from Down Under: Report from Linux.conf.au 2009
Jan 21, 2009For FOSS fans, there's no better place to be this week than Hobart, state capitol of the Australian state Tasmania. That's where Linux.conf.au 2009 is being held through Saturday, January 24.
more »OLPC Cuts Staff by 50 Percent
Jan 08, 2009Today the One Laptop per Child Project announced that they will be reducing their team by about 50 percent and the remaining 32 team members will have salary reductions.
more »Doghouse: Leading by Example Making the case for Free software
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