The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa recently hosted the third Idlelo conference, which focused on "Making the Knowledge Economy Work for Africa."

Should free development be a part of free software, or is Apache pioneer Roy Fielding asking too much of Sun? Besides looking at the commercial side of free software, this month's column investigates synchronization of speech and text.

In mid-April, LugRadio Live landed at the Metreon Theater in San Francisco for two days of music, mixing, Linux, and live recording.

The Opensuse Usability Team has launched a mini-survey to find out how users configure their hard disks. The freely accessible survey will be online until May 28, 2008.

At CeBIT 2008, the world's biggest computer fair, popular topics included Green IT, mini-PCs, and open source.

Now into its eighth year, the FOSDEM developer conference in Brussels, Belgium, demonstrates that it is very much alive and kicking, and even celebrating records.