"The proliferation of standards-based video sharing and collaboration is set to take off with a $US100,000 grant from the Mozilla Foundation to fund the development of the Ogg Theora video codec and server-side streaming software.

Daniel Holbach works for Canonical where is involved in the Ubuntu Community, taking care the relationship with the MOTU team, the Ubuntu developers. Daniel gave us an interview where he speaks about his own work, the Ubuntu Developer Week, Ubuntu 9.04, and relationship with Debian (Italian version available).

"In Google’s Summer of Code program, students receive some help while they work for 3 months on the free software project they choose. Several organizations have taken part in the last 4 years, including GNU (ideas for SOC 2009). GNU Emacs could also take part this year; this page is an informal discussion about ideas. Feel free to edit this page! ..."

"Richard Stallman is the father of Free Software. I am republishing one of his essay here on why schools should exclusively use Free software..."

An Indymedia server was seized by police in Manchester. This comes after somebody had posted the address of the judge in the SHAC trial on Indymedia, leading to Kent Police requesting that the IP address of their author be divulged. Because Indymedia don’t log the IP addresses of people publishing on it, they couldn’t help police with their enquiries.

The biggest advantage if Citadel is ease of installation and ease of configuration. Both of these can be a serious hassle when you are building a Postfix mail server from scratch. So the focus of this documentation is clear easy configuration. The goal also requires a mail server that has an easy interface to make changes with and that is intuitive.

At the 2009 linux.conf.au Penguin Dinner, Bdale Garbee "agreed" to shave his beard if enough funds were pledged toward the cause of protecting the Tasmanian Devil from extinction. On January 22, Linus Torvalds did the honors. Something between AU$35,000 and $40,000 was raised through this effort.