The Software Development Times has published an in-depth look the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) attempts at breaking down barriers for women in open source. It highlights the recently released report by the FSF's Women's Caucus, a mini-summit held last year to address issues in the FOSS community that some say prevent more females from participating.
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Ubootnu versus the neck beards
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Late last night saw an effective end to what I’m calling “the neck beard incursion”. It started last Saturday with a rather unfortunate post on the popular site OMGUbuntu.co.uk, and ended amicably with the author’s apology.
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Ubuntu and the importance of community
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Canonical developer Dave Walker investigates the importance of governance in a community as rich and diverse as Ubuntu’s…
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2010 Gentoo Screenshot Contest Results
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As the quantity and quality of this year's entries will attest, Gentoo is alive, well, and taking no prisoners!
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Cash and Community: Incentives and Open Source Development
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At the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), held in July in Portland, Oregon, a four-person panel moderated by Rob Lanphier of the Wikimedia Foundation weighed in on financial incentives in open source.
Read more »Breaking down barriers for women in open source
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is acting to implement strategies to broaden the participation of women in the free and open-source software community (FOSS).
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Ubuntu no plans to fork GNOME
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Community Manager Jono Bacon talks about the relationship of the two projects in an interview with derStandard.at
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European Mozilla Community Loves Free Software @ Hegyalja Festival 2010
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«Like in the past few years, “Ubuntu and Free Software” Tent was put up again this year at the Hegyalja Festival 2010. With support of the Zöld Pók Foundation, under the leadership of Róbert Fidrich (Fidusz) two volunteers: Márk Dániel (loldma) and Kálmán Szalai (KAMI) introduced the free software to the visitors...»
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Linux Outlaws 161
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This week, we discuss the big Gnome Census debate, other news from GUADEC 2010, Lockheed Martin’s first open source project and what it does, Chrome Canary, DMCA exemptions and much more…
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 77
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Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral by merc and crimperman .
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FreeBSD 8.1 uses different open source philosophy
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FreeBSD may not receive the attention that Linux does, but its latest upgrade could provide some instruction to the makers of Ubuntu about how to do open source releases.
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Three strikes with Ubuntu video editors
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I honestly thought that the hardest part of editing video on my Linux Mint computer would be capturing the video footage to my hard drive. Turns out I was wrong. Very wrong.
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August 2010 Issue of The PCLOS Magazine
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The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the August 2010 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine. In this issue: Linux IS Ready For The Desktop, Video Encoding: Step-By-Step, and Screenshot Showcase.
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Red Hat vs. Ubuntu: Why upstream comitts matter
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If you need something fixed or done, then you make that contribution upstream. Doing everything upstream is the only way that Linux will remain un-fragmented. Without upstream there is no Linux community.
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FLOSS and software patents: if you can't beat 'em, join 'em
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At the Linux Foundation's annual LinuxCon event this week, Columbia University law professor and Software Freedom Law Center founder Eben Moglen explained that prospects for software patent reform are bleak and that the time has come for the free software community to start finding ways to solve its patent problems by using the patent system itself.
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