FSF Awards for John Gilmore and Archive.org
Mar 26, 2010At the LibrePlanet conference, held in Cambridge MA. on Saturday, the Free Software Foundation presented its annual free software awards. Winners were the software activist John Gilmore and the internet archive, Archive.org.
more »Rankings of the Most Influential Open Source Voices
Mar 25, 2010Mark Fidelman from the open source centered company Mindtouch, has devised a method of establishing who has the strongest influence in the open source community. The result is a list of the Most Powerful Voices (MPV) by rank.
more »Fedora Project Leader Sought
Mar 25, 2010Paul W. Frields would like to withdraw from the daily activities at Fedora and take on another responsibility at Red Hat, also considering that Fedora 13 is close to feature complete.
more »CeBIT Open Source 2010: Forum Talks Online
Mar 22, 2010Next delivery of CeBIT videos -- the presentation streams from Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the Open Source Forum at CeBIT Open Source 2010 are available online. Free for all!
more »CeBIT Open Source 2010: Forum Talks Online
Mar 22, 2010Next delivery of CeBIT videos -- the presentation streams from Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the Open Source Forum at CeBIT Open Source 2010 are available online. Free for all!
more »CeBIT Open Source 2010: First Forum Videos Online
Mar 18, 2010Much in demand, now online -- the presentation streams from Tuesday and Wednesday of the Open Source Forum at CeBIT Open Source 2010.
more »If Dreams Were Real: Convergence of Distro and Kernel Versions
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more »Debian Seeks New Project Leader
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