Archive › January 6, 2009

Open Source and Open Learning

by on January 6, 2009 in Advocacy, Article, Community, Ubuntu

Years ago when I was at OpenAdvantage, I worked closely with a group called Access To Recycled Technology. Formed by two salt-of-the-earth students called Steve and Vinnie, they secured what they referred to as “access space” in Birmingham. It was basically a decent sized room that they used to fill with old, discarded computers. They [...]

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DJ Westby In The Hall

by on January 6, 2009 in Ubuntu

I am pleased to announce that James Westby is the new Featured Contributor on the Ubuntu Hall Of Fame. We already knew that James rocked the house with his Ubuntu work, but the new Nominate somebody! feature in the Hall Of Fame generated a number of requests for James. So, it seemed only right that [...]

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I Invented Twitter

by on January 6, 2009 in Humor

Well kind of…in a way…possibly…OK, not at all. The other day I was digging through some old articles that I wrote. To my amusement, I saw a reference to a little program I hacked up once when I was involved as a KDE developer. I had totally forgotten about it, and I figured it would [...]

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