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OggCamp, A Free Culture Unconference 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
This October sees the return of OggCamp, the UK’s biggest community-run Free Culture event encompassing free and open source software, hardware hacking, creative commons media, and much more. The eve...
Ubuntu Edge – What Happened? 22 Aug 2013 | 03:25 pm
The Ubuntu Edge crowdfunding campaign finished today, which despite having more money pledged than any previous crowdfunding campaign, fell $20 million short of it’s massive $32 million target. The g...
Using open source software can offer savings for colleges 14 Aug 2013 | 08:24 pm
In case you missed it, Jisc Inform has an article by OSS Watch on open source for colleges, in which we highlight the Open Source Options resource. I’ll also be doing a short talk at ALT-C next month...
BBC creates HTML5 TV appliance 14 Aug 2013 | 05:57 pm
The BBC R&D labs have recently been busy working on a TV prototyping appliance called the egBox. The idea behind it is to create a minimum viable product of a HTML5-based TV as the base platform for e...
FRAND and policy: Obama vetoes ITC iPhone and iPad ban 6 Aug 2013 | 04:24 pm
Even for those of us who find smartphone patent litigation interesting, the sheer number of decisions and reversals across so many countries can be hard to track. The general impression one gains is t...
How “open source” is the Minnowboard? 2 Aug 2013 | 02:45 pm
This week, Intel announced the Minnowboard, a small embedded development board akin to the RaspberryPi, BeagleBoard and similar devices. The point that grabbed my attention is that it’s being touted a...
Ubuntu Edge – Crowdfunding the Formula 1 of phones 22 Jul 2013 | 08:57 pm
Today Canonical announced the next step in their project to bring Ubuntu to the phone. A new potentially record-breaking IndieGoGo crowd-funding campaign has been launched for the “Ubuntu Edge” – a d...
Icon Envy 19 Jul 2013 | 07:59 pm
Github, popular code sharing and collaboration site, has recently become much more attentive to the subject of unlicensed code. Obviously, like any user content driven site, Github had extensive terms...
Getting the Maximum Benefit from Free and Open Source Software 16 Jul 2013 | 04:06 pm
Last week Mark and I attended the Oxford University ICT Forum where we gave this workshop talk on “Getting the Maximum Benefit from Free and Open Source Software”. This provided an overview from both...
Institutional Web Manager’s Workshop 2013 – Part 2 8 Jul 2013 | 05:25 pm
The second day of IWMW kicked off with talks looking at how the user experience of modern institutional websites is handled. The User Experience Jonathan Hassell of Hassell including spoke about inc...
