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Gorgeous poster for foss.my 2009, featuring a gorgeous kid in a penguin suit holding the OLPC laptop I gave to her at last year's foss.my 🙂
Month: September 2009
links for 2009-09-22
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"The Marine Corps' ban on Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, and other social media could hurt morale more than it helps security, a public policy researcher said. "The ban is at odds with realities of the 21st-century military," said Chris Bronk. Very interesting.
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"Managing staff who participate in social networks." – some great links and guides put together by Laurel Papworth! Thanks!
links for 2009-09-21
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"Far from heralding in a "2001: Space Odyssey" dystopia, Baron believes that social networking sites, blogs and the Internet are actually making us better writers and improving our ability to reach out to our fellow man." Very interesting!
links for 2009-09-18
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Awesome timeshifting graphing tool. Very nice!
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"It has come to my attention that the music industry now wants royalties for those 30-second clips of music you hear in iTunes." Insanity! Great article.
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"So in case it's of use to others who are thinking of doing the same, I've turned BIS's Twitter strategy into a generic template Twitter strategy for Departments" Quite useful for gov esp politicians. A little over the top if terms of risk mgmt, but very useful.
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"As a preview it's rough around the edges, may your love for data guide you." – Lovely, interactive and mashable datasets publicly available. Really useful!
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"data visualizations you just gotta love…" – Lovely blog for chart and data philes 🙂
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"How does the government spend our money – and what would you cut? Click on the link to hear economics editor". UK Government spending in beautiful interactive format. Nice!
links for 2009-09-17
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"The New Zealand Open Source Society is launching a project to demonstrate the viability of free open source software on public sector desktops."
Software Freedom Day 2009 – worldwide coverage!
I’m helping do a local Software Freedom Day event in Canberra this Saturday (19th September) and I had a quick look at the worldwide map and was extremely impressed to see such diverse worldwide coverage. It is worth comparing this years map to say 2005 there is a lot less coverage, and a lot less countries. It is wonderful to see such an important event really taking off. Hats off to the Software Freedom International board who are doing an amazing job! I know how tough that job can be 🙂
The SFD09 Canberra event includes participation in a local computer fair on the day, followed by an installfest and workshop a week later. All information on the Canberra SFD 09 webpage!
A Sheik, a Rabbi & a Priest in Yass
My parents are putting on an event in Yass on the 16th September which proves to be very interesting. Basically it is the Together for Humanity Foundation, which bring a Sheik, a Rabbi and a Priest together to discuss the differences and similarities of Islam, Judaism and Christianity (respectively) and ultimately help promote understanding and tolerance in our society.
It is a great cause, and they primarily speak to schools all over the country. There is a dinner on the night of the 16th including a panel of the speakers and I thought it might be of some interest to some of the more local readers of my blog 🙂
As a person who studies Chan Buddhism, obviously I’d love to see even more diversity represented. But I still think it will be a very interesting event and I hope to see a few of you there 🙂