Mar 10, 2010 GMT
Congratulations to Akkana Peck! Akkana won one of our free passes to Where 2.0. I still have 1 ticket available, so get your submission in lickety split!
And way to be an overachiever, Akkana! Check out these beautiful submissions:
I'd so love a ticket to WHERE
'Cause of all the great mapping talks there
See, at Where 2.0
There is so much to... more »
Mar 10, 2010 GMT
Who: You?
What: Win 1 free ticket (conference sessions only) to O'Reilly's Where 2.0 conference (or you can buy your own ticket if you don't want to enter the contest and prefer to register here)
Where: San Jose, California, USA
When: March 30-April 1, 2010
How: Send me an email with either a limerick or haiku that is coherent (meaning it makes sense when I read it... more »
Mar 10, 2010 GMT
It's not too late to get your proposal in for Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2010. Check out this impressive and inviting list of options:
Birds of a Feather (BOFs) Call for Participation
Mar 09, 2010 GMT
Yesterday the winners of the Ubuntu women-sponsored contest were announced. Check out Amber Graner's summary of the announcement over on her Ubuntu User blog.
Congratulations to the winners – I hope you enjoy your new magazine subscription and other fabulous prizes!
Mar 09, 2010 GMT
Linux.com is launching a new online store, which includes t-shirts, baby onesies, stickers, and coffee mugs. According to the announcement:
Mar 08, 2010 GMT
Happy 99th International Women's Day! How do you plan to celebrate?
Mar 05, 2010 GMT
I think about magazines all the time, even on vacation when I look for Linux Pro on the newsstands everywhere I go (really, my vacation albums include our magazine in the wild). I think about online, too, but my passion is for print.
I've worked in print publishing my entire adult life, and it's how my spouse earns his living, too. In fact, on our honeymoon in Playa del Carmen we went to a scuba shop just to check out a magazine my husbands designs – and it looks just as good in Mexico... more »
Richard Stallman calls for the W3C to remain independent of vendor interests.
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Fedora developers release the first alpha version of Fedora 19, known as Schrödinger’s Cat, for general testing. The final release is expected in July 2013.
ack is a grep-like, command-line tool that has been optimized for programmers to search large trees of source code.
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The new Gnome release includes privacy and sharing settings, allowing more user control over access to personal information.
Mozilla is collaborating with Samsung on a new web browser engine called Servo.
