"During an intensive three day period, participants from the Phillipines, Mexico, Tanzania, USA, and many other countries around the world, not excluding Spain itself, gathered around the Free Knowledge, Free Technology conference in Barcelona.

As ongoing challenges in the economy continue to pressure companies to control operating costs, is it any surprise that IT managers are continuing to deploy economical IT solutions like Linux in their data centers?

Today they were here to offer support for FOSS communities , in their own
words " We saved over fifteen lakh rupees on OS licensing costs alone.
Donating money as sponsorship to the FOSS communities and the events that
they organize is nothing com[ared to the help and support they provided us"

And you know what ? We are proud of them . We are proud of ( and to be the

The head of South Africa’s government open source working group, the chief technical officer of the State IT Agency (Sita) and The Shuttleworth Foundation, have laid a complaint with the Human Rights Commission (HRC) against the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) for excluding non-Internet Explorer users from it website.

This week is going to be a little different - the show is longer for a start. We cover this weeks news and express our anger in the Two Minutes Hate as usual, but we also have an interview with Matt Lee from the FSF, mainly about the the recent Stephen Fry video. Remember, you can discuss the show on IRC, the forum or email us feedback.

"MEPs, representatives of the European Commission and Council have discussed yesterday in plenary session, in Brussels, the reform of European law on electronic communications [...] The EDPS, as an independent EU authority in charge of personal data protection, considers that these amendments are an open invitation to a 'mass surveillance of Internet users' and to "lay the foundations" of the grad

A date is set and action prepared for the fight against software patents

"Two weeks after the major release of Git version 1.6.0, the Git community started a survey containing 60 questions that can help to understand the users' needs, behavior, and what they like and dislike about Git..." -- (via Savannah mailing-list)