Just been working with some similarly petty minded individuals on an April 1st news item for the OpenOffice.org homepage…
Postscript – it got Slashdotted 

It’s hard to believe, but I’ve just booked my flights for the OpenOffice.org Conference 2006 (OOoCon 2006) in Lyon, from September 11th-16th. I see that EasyJet have now joined the print your own boarding card fraternity, although they don’t give you a discount for doing so and don’t put you at the front of the [...]

Good lord, even the Financial Times is endorsing open-source for developing countries:
Open source is not the answer to all their problems, but it can make the power of computing cheaper and more accessible to some of the world’s poorest people.
And so say all of us.

One the questions I’m often asked about open-source software is whether it’s possible to make a living from it. It may sound illogical, but many companies have found it’s possible to develop very successful businesses around open-source (and I don’t just mean computer giant IBM’s USD 16 billion Linux business). Every day I answer requests [...]

There’s a fascinating article Taking Free Software to the Farmers and Fields of India in Friday’s Linux Journal.
Thanks to work done by the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Bombay) and its partners, IT-savvy and knowledge-hungry people across rural India now can find relevant, demand-driven farming knowledge on the aAqua.org Web site.
When we were talking to [...]

Thoughts at the end of a wonderful trip to Bangldesh

An exhausting trip home.