I’m in Portland, Oregon this week for OSCON 2008. Asheesh and I are speaking tomorrow on ccREL and liblicense.
Things I’m hoping to see this week:
lots of attention paid to identi.ca, not just as an alternative to Twitter but as a first step towards truly open services,
lots of discussion about how free software can enable [...]
I did a closet purge today and wound up with four garbage bags of clothes to donate. Four bags of clothes I haven’t worn since moving to San Francisco a year ago. My problems are obviously first world, problems of luxury.
Yet another reminder of how fortunate I am.
The Creative Commons licene engine has gone through several iterations, the most recent being a Zope 3 / Grok application. This has actually been a great implementation for us1, but since the day it was deployed there’s been a warning in README.txt:
If you get a UnicodeDecodeError from the cc.engine (you’ll see this if it’s
running in [...]
Last year when Asus released the original Eee PC 7xx series, a colleage and I made a lunch-time trek to Central Computers down the street and each picked up a 701 with 4 GB SSD and Linux. The stock distribution is Xandros based. That’s great since Xandros is Debian based itself, but not [...]
