We’re off on our holidays in a cottage overlooking Loch Broom, in the Scottish Highlands. Alas, my mobile internet connection fails to connect here – some issue with the Three mobile network when using legacy (GPRS) networks. I remember seeing comments about it, but as I have no internet access, I can’t Google for the [...]
SourceForge – home to zillions of open source projects – is running one of those ‘nominate your favourite open-source project’ contests. They’ve tried to make it a bit more interesting by adding some tongue-in-cheek categories, such as Most Likely to Get Users Sued and Most Likely to Be Ambiguously Accused of Patent Violation. The one [...]
The OpenOffice.org Annual Conference is the premier get together of the OpenOffice.org Community, including developers, users, supporters, etc from all round the world. Florian and I have been busy with the organisers of OOoCon 2008 in Beijing, working out timetables, sponsorship packages, encouraging potential speakers, and most important of all, choosing the OOoCon 2008 logo. [...]
With a little persistence, I have persuaded the UK Prime Minister’s Office to accept an e-Petition:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to adopt the Hague Declaration of the Digital Standards Organisation.
If you are a British citizen or resident, please consider supporting this petition by voting online before 6th July.
In practical terms, the Hague Declaration [...]
