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Here's a new web site that just started up to promote AB 1668 - This bill will mandate that the State of California use open, royalty-free, XML-based document formats. Support open government! read more | digg story
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With more companies finding that they don't have to pay astronomical fees for systems management software, they're turning to Open Source alternatives. In this case, mynewplace.com chose Hyperic HQ over Openview when Nagios failed them.read more | digg...
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Blogging from sf beta! It's like a frat party for web 2.0 types. Complete with groupies! @ 111 minna
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Hyperic is giving away $5,000 in scholarship money to the winner of an essay contest on the subject of "Managing the Next Generation Data Center". Open to all university students and employees (including faculty). If you're an employee, the money goes ...
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I realize I'm late to this party, but I couldn't help myself. Hey Donatella, when you get to be a senator or hell can hold any kind of office, perhaps then you can tell Hillary Clinton what to wear. Until then, just STFU. Having just watched "The Devil...
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I was pleasantly surprised to find this writeup that appeared in eWeek last Friday.It focused on Jay Sulzberger and Steve George, which covered the last 1.5 hours of the event. I wonder how much of the event the author had a chance to see?
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After the fond greetings and farewells, and after everything has been said and done, another Ubucon has gone down in the history books. About 100 people, much more than assembled for the 1st Ubucon in California, came together to learn more about Ubunt...
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One panel i'm attending right now is on gpl3. One guy from dla piper, one from sun, and another from softwarefreedom.org - Eben's group. main idea - will have a limited impact... nothing earth-shattering but many attendees aren't very knowledgeable. su...
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Blogging with my nokia 800... Ok, it's not really mine, but i'm using it while at linuxworld new york. but now i'm hooked, so i'll probably end up buying one. more on lw ny in a bit. the show has been toned down into a conference. frankly it's better n...
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I've posted a list of organizations and media that we should target to attend. If you contact anyone there, please indicate you have done so on the wiki.
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It's a pleasure to announce that Bradley Kuhn of the Software Freedom Law Center, Jay Sulzberger, a long-time free software advocate and general troublemaker (in a good way), and Benjamin "Mako" Hill of the MIT Media Lab (and longtime Debian and Ubuntu...
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It's been a busy time here at UbuCon central. First the venue - Leslie kindly updated the wiki to include the latest:Google's NYC office is located at 76 9th Avenue in Chelsea, Manhattan, between 8th and 9th Avenue and 15th and 16th Street. Please ent...