The three first fellowship grants have been attributed to Alexjan Carraturo, Ferdinand Thommes, Matija Šuklje. There are still 11 months left.
The Fellowship is the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) community. Fellows participates in keeping Free Software going strong in Europe and beyond. Join the Fellowship or apply for a grant if you want to help and can't afford to join.
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Craig Rodrigues writes that his friend and colleague John Birrell passed away.
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In today's world, we have a "digital divide," wherein some people have the means and tools to exploit technology and others do not. In most developing countries, people still pirate software because they cannot afford to pay for it.
Read more »Michael Arrington's Crunchpad project appears to have hit a snag, story, with some investigation.
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I have been thinking about the Open Source world more than I have in the past. And as I have been talking about it with people, I have been getting the standard responses you might expect. An email from my friend Karl, in response to an email I sent, seemed to sum it all up:
Read more »The Free Software Foundation has recognized 2 contributors for finding nonfree components in FSF-endorsed fully free distributions, as part of the "GNU Bucks" bounty program.
Read more »With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan. I have twisted their Pirates of Penzance song to "I am the very model of an open source sensational". Sung to the tune of "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General".
Read more »Often Linux evangelists focus on those who already have a technical bent through initiatives such as software freedom day. The Ubuntu community in Massachusetts decided its time to reach out to a new crowd.
Read more »Frictional Games the developers of the horror Penumbra series recently revealed the title of their next project – Amnesia : The Dark Descent which I wrote about earlier. For this special event I interviewed the developers about their next title.
Read more »The 4.0 release of the KDE software compilation marked a major milestone for the KDE community. While the underlying development platform has seen a modernization to better work with increased demand of applications, the community also saw a shift in its development methods.
Read more »Tomáš (scarabeus) and I decided it was time to do another round of stabilizations.
Read more »Christmas is near! Matthias has some good advice. Here is his new list of Free Software related books 2009 which are also good for people who have not heard much about Free Software before.
Read more »Cathy Malmrose gives a glimpse into a project where seven year old girls build desktops with Ubuntu for their grandparents.
Read more »Innovation is one of those things we pretend to want and then complain when it happens. When the KDE team decided to innovate with plasma, all they got were heaps and heaps of criticism thrown at them. Now it appears that Gnome 3.0 is going to suffer the same fate.
Read more »Linux is not an OS. Besides the typical point that Linux is just the kernel my basic point was that what we typically call "Linux" is not really a single coherent operating system, but rather a framework for developing them or an ecosystem which spawns them.
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