Minerva at FOSDEM
Blog Well, for those that couldn't hear me explain some more of the technical details, there's a video of my presentation online at: http://video.fosdem.org/2008/lightningtalks/FOSDEM2008-minerva.ogg Thanks to everyone that turned out for my talk in...
[March 10, 2008, 9:03]
Minerva at FOSDEM
Blog Comment Thanks for the link, Steev--it's a great intro to Minerva. For those who don't know, that's Steev's home-automation system, which lets you use a variety of interfaces--mobile phone or web browser, for example--to control devices around the house.
[March 13, 2008, 14:23]
Wikipedia needs help to keep growing
News In the opening talk at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels on Saturday, Wikipedia Foundation president Jimmy Wales urged the assembled audience of open source developers to get involved with the online encyclopaedia.
[March 1, 2005, 14:40]
Firefox sneaks into the enterprise
News Gervase Markham, a Mozilla staff member who was also speaking at FOSDEM, added that there is a Fortune 100 company in the US that has deployed Thunderbird on 50,000 PCs and is paying the Mozilla Foundation to customise the email application.
[March 1, 2005, 13:35]
Oracle quietly works with Mozilla
News The Mozilla Foundation revealed at the FOSDEM conference in February that the database giant had hired three people to work on Mozilla Lightning. Gervase Markham, a Mozilla staff member, speculated at FOSDEM that Oracle's main motivation in working...
[May 13, 2005, 11:45]
Google keeping the wolf from Firefox' door
News Tristan Nitot, the president of Mozilla Europe, who was also speaking at FOSDEM, said that although his group is struggling to survive on its current budget, it will be careful about making any deals.
[February 28, 2005, 14:10]
The ups and downs of life with Linus
News During a talk last weekend at the Free and Open source Software Developers European Meeting, FOSDEM, on the challenges of maintaining a stable Linux kernel, Cox revealed that although Linus is good at developing code, he does not enjoy some of the...
[March 1, 2005, 17:15]
Cox shows value in open discussions
Leader Speaking at FOSDEM, the Free and Open source Software Developers European Meeting, in Brussels, Cox went onto highlight the repercussions of Torvald's apparent lack of engineering aptitude. Linus Torvalds is a terrible engineer, it was revealed...
[March 2, 2005, 13:00]
Patent activists protest in Brussels
Talkback Hope to see y'all at FOSDEM in Brussels the last weekend of February Software patents NO! Innovation YES! Litigation NO! Oh, the demonstration is already finished. Sorry 'bout that. I hope it won't be necessary, but if it is, I'll be there next...
[February 19, 2005, 9:42]
Wikipedia planning a DVD version
News At FOSDEM last month Wales urged the assembled audience of open source developers to get involved with the work of the foundation. The Wikipedia Foundation hopes to sell an English version of Wikipedia on CD-ROM and DVD before the end of the year.
[April 7, 2005, 17:05]
Open source projects: Why it pays to keep quiet
News I know companies that are deploying Firefox or Thunderbird, but they aren't talking about it as they don't want to see an increase in their [Microsoft] Office licence price," said Mozilla Europe's president Tristan Nitot, speaking about migrations...
[November 25, 2005, 14:15]
The open source techie who means business
News FOSDEM conference in Brussels. Alan Cox is so well thought of in the open source community that he can pull together a crowd of eager techies to discuss theoretical software stability on a Sunday afternoon — as he did at last year's
[January 31, 2006, 15:45]
