At the LibrePlanet conference, held in Cambridge MA. on Saturday, the Free Software Foundation presented its annual free software awards. Winners were the software activist John Gilmore and the internet archive, Archive.org.

Mark Fidelman from the open source centered company Mindtouch, has devised a method of establishing who has the strongest influence in the open source community. The result is a list of the Most Powerful Voices (MPV) by rank.

Paul W. Frields would like to withdraw from the daily activities at Fedora and take on another responsibility at Red Hat, also considering that Fedora 13 is close to feature complete.

Next delivery of CeBIT videos -- the presentation streams from Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the Open Source Forum at CeBIT Open Source 2010 are available online. Free for all!

Next delivery of CeBIT videos -- the presentation streams from Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the Open Source Forum at CeBIT Open Source 2010 are available online. Free for all!

Much in demand, now online -- the presentation streams from Tuesday and Wednesday of the Open Source Forum at CeBIT Open Source 2010.

Mark Shuttleworth had a dream: the big Linux distros should agree to have version numbers identical to those of kernel components and refresh them every two years. The dream now is more real than ever.

For the past four weeks, candidates have been applying for the position of Project Leader at Debian. Four candidates have made it to the last round.