The Internet has a habit of making anything you say obsolete as soon as you say it. No sooner had I compared the future of the GNOME and KDE desktops than GNOME announced that a version 3.0 would be released after all.
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Is Gnome Desperately Chasing KDE?
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Social networking and the free software community: enter FLOSS.pro
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"Ever since Richard Stallman started the free software movement, the core ideal of it has been built around the concept of a community. A network of people working and playing together for their common good. In the last couple of years computer science research have found a new hot-tech in the user-interaction space: social networking..."
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Linux Educational Comicbook
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I got an email from Jeremiah Gray announcing a new issue (#2) of Hackett and Bankwell, the educational comicbook about Linux and Free and Open Source Software from Intarcorp Ltd. Issue #2 is currently only available in electronic format (PDF) and they have decided to release it under a Creative Commons license. Thank you!
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OpenOffice: Future Uncertain
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Florian Effenberger is co-lead of the international OpenOffice.org marketing project. Our sister publication Linux-Community asked him how the deal between Sun and Oracle would affect OpenOffice.
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FSDaily milestones - and a big thank you to one special FSDaily community member
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A quick message letting you know about the number of stories published and promoted on FSDaily. Also some thanks to the community for posting them and a special thanks to one member in particular...
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FSDaily milestones - and a big thank you to one special FSDaily community member
Just a quick message to everyone to say congratulations! FSDaily has been live now for slightly under two years and we have already had well over 25,000 stories published and over 9,000 promoted to our homepage. We also now have well over 5,000 users!
Well done everyone! Thanks for participating!
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Free Software Supporter -- Issue 13, April 2009
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* Version 2.2 of gNewSense released
* FSF releases audio recording of LibrePlanet conference
* Winners of the annual free software awards announced!
* Help spring the Javascript Trap
* European Elections and the Free Software Pact
* Can you help the Open Graphics Project?
* Nintendo DSi: Defective by DESiGN
* Join Amazon authors' "drmfree" effort
Web fonts starts bubbling merrily: “Fuck the foundries”
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"Mark Pilgrim is an important software freedom advocate, famous for his blog posts about switching from Mac OS X to GNU/Linux (nb Gruber’s reply) and from MovableType to WordPress. So I’m happy to see him championing web fonts, since this little feature of CSS3 that is going to ship in all major browsers this year hasn’t got enough press I think..."
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FSFE seeking Executive Director
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It will be the responsibility of the Executive Director to coordinate FSFE's day-to-day affairs through working with a mixed team of volunteers and employees. Further responsibilities include management of the organisational assets according to the priorities set by the General Assembly and coordination of the Executive Council.
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CONSOL 2009
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«I participated at CONSOL 2009 and had the opportunity to give 4 talks this time and meet with "the software libre community"...»
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A little help for FLISoL - Open Letter to Microsof
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Would you be kind enough to provide us at FLISoL Bogotá with say, 15 or 20 of those installation CDs/DVDs? We won't be using them to install Windows on the computers, don't have to worry about it. I will personally hand them out to the kids so that they use them to play around (as frisbies or just to scratch on their surface) while we are on our stuff.
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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 299, 20 April 2009
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Welcome to this year's 16th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! It's the Ubuntu release week (or Ubuntu "circus", as some prefer to call it), a major event in the calendar of many open source software enthusiasts.
Read more »A guide to helping the GNU operating system - (last updated $Date: 2009/04/13 21:18:30 $)
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"The GNU Volunteer Coordinators can assist you if you wish to help the GNU Project. They will be able to put you in touch with other people interested in or working on similar projects. When you have selected a task from our task lists, please let them know you're interested in working on
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Fitting the kitchen sink onto a CD
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On an Ubuntu install CD, every megabyte counts. So here's a little proposal to save a good bunch of them.
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