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“Wire, like code, can be put to any number of uses given the license to be creative, or dare I say, ingenious.” – A brilliant speech by the NZ ICT Minister, Hon David Cunliffe, about Open Source at the NZ Open Source Awards this week. Wow!

“Mahara is a fully featured open source electronic portfolio, weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online communities.” Great stuff!

“If you made a promise and don’t keep it, what is it?”, “A non-core promise” – A funny skit about the Howard Government in Australia.

“Consumers’ rights to use intellectual property are increasingly under threat. Policy is made at an international level – how can national consumer organisations work better to strengthen their voice on the global stage?” Looks interesting!

“I AM PIA!” Funny, I am Pia too! I ran across this person through a random email asking if I was her. She also lives in Sydney, is something of a geek (although an electricity and art geek) and the name Pia is so rare in Australia 🙂

“During lunch however, I spotted Pia again and she let me take the OLPC for an extended play.” Thanks for the article Chris 🙂 Glad you enjoyed playing with the OLPC!

Great blog post about women in FOSS with a very useful piece of advice. “Please ladies, don’t judge us by our worst specimens” 🙂 There are so many awesome people in our community all around the world.

Jeff makes the top 40 list, and in the A list too 🙂 Yay!

“Australians working with open source software are urged to participate in an online census launched this week to discover the capabilities of the local industry.” – Another press article about our Census by ZDNet.

The roadshow is going well 🙂 “Speaking at an open source industry roadshow in conjunction with National ICT Australia (NICTA), the flamboyant Waugh… said open source is “great” for Australia because it provides a “huge opportunity” to export services.”

“There is no silver bullet that can protect children online … But a computer with a filter is infinitely safer than one without.” Really? How about education as a novel idea. Extend the normal Stranger Danger message to the digital world, that is far mo