http://www.theopensourcereport.com An independent news site devoted to Open Source technology and the community which creates it. Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:12:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 1601307http://www.feedburner.com I'll be interviewing Jeff Waugh tonight on RRR's technology show, Byte into IT. Jeff will be giving us an update on the local work being done with the One Laptop per Child laptop, the XO. OLPC volunteers are hard at work in the south pacific region and right here in Australia. If you're ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheOpenSourceReport/~3/420984002/ http://www.theopensourcereport.com/2008/10/14/interview-with-jeff-waugh-tonight-on-rrr/ I was pretty disappointed to read this article in the SMH yesterday on the birth of eDemocracy in Australia. Written by someone from GetUp, it failed to mention OpenAustralia.org, while spruiking GetUp's forthcoming website, Project Democracy, which will actually run on OpenAustralia.org's software and use OpenAustralia.org data. Here's the article I ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheOpenSourceReport/~3/376744716/ http://www.theopensourcereport.com/2008/08/27/getups-smh-article-subtract-the-transparency-from-edemocracy/ MIS magazine (Australia) has just published a feature I wrote for them on the uptake of open source software in Australia. A lot of the feature was based on research & interviews I undertook at Linux.conf.au earlier this year. Open Season http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheOpenSourceReport/~3/349414026/ http://www.theopensourcereport.com/2008/07/29/open-season-an-mis-feature-on-open-source-in-australia/ One of the fascinating things about open source, to me, is the way that its ideas about freedom of information have inspired everything from software licensing to music mashups. The possibilities, but also the problems, of applying notions of open source licensing to other areas such as publishing were brought ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheOpenSourceReport/~3/342415050/ http://www.theopensourcereport.com/2008/07/22/interview-with-leo-babauta-of-zen-habits-on-open-source-as-a-model-for-online-publishing/ [crossposted to Linux Chix, Linux Australia,  LCA  and GGD lists, apologies if you see this a few times.] How would you like a mentor to help you improve your proposal for a talk at Linux.conf.au? If you're a female geek (professional or student) and thinking of submitting a tech talk to ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheOpenSourceReport/~3/342393981/ http://www.theopensourcereport.com/2008/07/22/for-women-thinking-of-attending-or-presenting-at-linuxconfau-2009/ Linux.conf.au is heading down south to Tasmania in 2009, so if you fancy a trip down south and you have some technical knowledge you'd like to share - put your name forward as a speaker! Ben Powell from the "March South" organising team emailed me to let me know that ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheOpenSourceReport/~3/329466457/ http://www.theopensourcereport.com/2008/07/07/linuxconfau-2009-call-for-papers/ I've just plastered this news all over Crikey, but had to give OpenAustralia.org a big plug here too. This is a project - based on open source principles -to put Hansard (the official report of the debates and proceedings of Parliament) online and make it searchable. People in the open ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheOpenSourceReport/~3/318564601/ http://www.theopensourcereport.com/2008/06/23/openaustraliaorg-beta-a-tool-for-online-democracy-in-australia/ Not strictly Open Source, but I'm hoping that we'll get lots of support and interest from the Open Source community. :) Anne-Marie and I would like to invite each and every Melbourne geek woman to join us for the first Melbourne Geek Girl Dinner on Thursday, 29 May. We'll be meeting at ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheOpenSourceReport/~3/292741103/ http://www.theopensourcereport.com/2008/05/18/launching-geek-girl-dinners-melbourne/ I'm going over my notes from LCA 2008 as I write a feature on open source for MIS magazine, and this quote from Dirk Hohndel, Intel's chief technologist for open source, still stands out to me: "Next time you buy hardware, think very hard about a way that you can ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheOpenSourceReport/~3/279292817/ http://www.theopensourcereport.com/2008/04/28/vote-with-your-dollars/ My writeup of Linux.conf.au (LCA) 2008 has appeared in the international Linux Magazine. I googled and found it for your reading pleasure - you'll need to open it in PDF format, but it's a fun little read (if I do say so myself). The guys at Linux Mag did promise ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheOpenSourceReport/~3/275030949/ http://www.theopensourcereport.com/2008/04/21/the-penguins-big-day-out-lca-writeup-in-linux-magazine/