Pinboard: bookmarks for epersonae tagged 'opensource'

"My little five year old daughter had been snuggled in my arms while I was talking to this neighbor. She had been listening closely. When we got home, she said, “Mom, I can install Ubuntu. I bet I can. Can I try? Can I try?”" freaking adorable. plus, 3 five year old girls build their own computers!

opensource gender linux misctech
december 2009 by epersonae

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Say hello to the Open Source Decade | rare pattern

"business does not require secrets" - I actually think this plain statement is the most important part of the whole post.

opensource business
december 2009 by epersonae

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Diaries of a Core Maintainer #6: A tale of two developers | webchick.net

or: don't be a perfectionist.

drupal opensource php psychology misctech
december 2009 by epersonae

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OpenGeoData » The Cake Test

"A set of geodata, or a map, is libre only if somebody can give you a cake with that map on top, as a present."

gis opensource
november 2009 by epersonae

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Seashore - About

"Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X's Cocoa framework." a simplified GIMP, apparently

mac opensource photoshoppery
november 2009 by epersonae

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Installing PHP on Windows Just Got Easier

gotta admit this platform installer sounds intriguing.

windows opensource php drupal wordpress webdev
november 2009 by epersonae

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Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal - O'Reilly Radar

how cool is that?

drupal opensource politics
october 2009 by epersonae

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Infotropism – Action and reaction: on avoiding “offense”

great post (I'm finding I love how Kirrily phrases this stuff) -- also, good comment from Anna about using the three-part feedback model.

gender tech politics opensource
august 2009 by epersonae

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OpenGoo: An Open Source Web Office

be your own google apps, basically.

opensource webdev google business
july 2009 by epersonae

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Women in Open Source – the canary in the coal mine | eaves.ca

"The power and capacity of an open source community is determined by the quantity and quality of its social capital. If a community fails to invest in either - if it turns off or away qualified people because its culture (however unintentionally) discriminates against a gender, race or group - then it limits its growth and potential. The same is true of a community culture that doesn't allow certain groups to improve their social capital." nicely put.

gender webdev opensource
july 2009 by epersonae

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Infotropism – Standing out in the crowd: my OSCON keynote

worth reading/watching.

gender webdev opensource
july 2009 by epersonae

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SolarNetOne: Solar-powered networking for anyone

"SolarNetOne is a turnkey Internet hotspot—power, computers, and satellite uplink—you can install virtually anywhere, for less than the cost of a subcompact car." diagram makes my head hurt, but fascinating.

wifi opensource
july 2009 by epersonae

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EveryBlock source code released / The EveryBlock Blog

oooh, I was waiting for this! would love to play around with this for oly.

local olympia gis opensource journalism
july 2009 by epersonae

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adafruit industries | laser etching services

neat! (via mathowie's photos of MeFi logo etched on his laptop) y'know, mom used to know how to build a laser....

arts weird opensource ipod misctech
june 2009 by epersonae

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Open Web Vancouver 2009: Want More Women In Your Project?

"When Angela @webchick Byron started writing a talk about women in open source for Open Web Vancouver 2009, she found the topic silly. [...] Instead, she would focus on recruiting people to projects. [...] Then she looked for data to support her theory. Except, she was in for a wee surprise."

drupal opensource gender webdev
june 2009 by epersonae

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Official Google Enterprise Blog: LMS and Google Apps - First Comes Love...

"Moodlerooms, a SaaS provider of Moodle, just launched an application built on the Moodle platform that lets school admins bring Moodle and Google Apps together with a single sign-in." neat! I don't have an Moodle experience, but anything that gets a leg up on Blackboard is good by me. :)

academia opensource google webdev
march 2009 by epersonae

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The League of Moveable Type: Junction

free type, might use it as the primary for my blog, to me it looks like Trebuchet, but a little more sexy. :)

design opensource typography
february 2009 by epersonae

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Using Wordpress city saves $19,000 | CMS Report

admittedly, the site itself is not the greatest, but it's better than a lot of gov't sites costing a LOT more. (I sent this to someone I know at City of Oly, btw.)

wordpress opensource olympia politics
february 2009 by epersonae

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scribus.net | Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing

oh hey, now avail for Windows & Mac. (last time I looked, it was Linux only.) yay!

opensource design mac linux gaming ena
november 2008 by epersonae

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Welcome to Forkd!

recipe-sharing site. interesting twist: uses the open-source meaning of "fork" in re: recipes.

recipes reference opensource
november 2008 by epersonae

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Open Library

also, this is neato.

reference opensource library
november 2008 by epersonae

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Stealing Your Library: The OCLC Powergrab (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

A little bit of the hyperbole that Swartz tends towards (ah to be young), but interesting and troubling nonetheless. via some fine librarian-types at FriendFeed.

library opensource
november 2008 by epersonae

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ProjectPier.org

"ProjectPier is a Free, Open-Source, self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams through an intuitive web interface." there's another open source basecamp clone (which I think I even have installed somewhere!) the name of which escapes me right now.

productivity opensource webdev
october 2008 by epersonae

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Lessons From the Science of Nothing At All

"Bugs are probably not quite what you think. Imagine you've designed a car and built it, but someone designed the wrong size tires for it. If the car were software, maybe this would cause the car to not start, or you wouldn't be able to steer it, or maybe the car would explode. Or maybe everything would go fine until the driver tuned to NPR and then the gas tank would spring a leak." heh. a ramble on the nature of software creation.

philosophizing history opensource misctech
october 2008 by epersonae

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Open Source PHP (gallery of apps)

keep an eye on this?

php opensource webdev
august 2008 by epersonae

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Hello darkness my old friend [dive into mark]

I just wanted to quote this: "Selling people on freedoms they can’t exercise themselves is, to put it mildly, an uphill battle." (in the comments) I think this is probably, unfortunately, a generalization that can be applied to many arenas.

politics mac opensource linux philosophizing
august 2008 by epersonae

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Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it

"Many of these problems are with volunteer software in general, not Free Software in particular. [...however...] it’s in Free Software that we see volunteer software’s usability problems most often." cultural issues, mostly.

usability opensource
august 2008 by epersonae

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Switzerland Network Testing Tool | Electronic Frontier Foundation

"It will spot IP packets which are forged or modified between clients, inform you, and give you copies of the modified packets." command-line only at the moment. via tiffany brown.

security opensource reference
august 2008 by epersonae

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The Price of Anonymity: Our Principles?

"Open Source project leaders are in the business of setting standards for how well-organized communities act when it comes to code. So why are so many projects stopping there?" thoughtful, esp on the role that "offhand comments" have in setting a group's tone. via shelley.

gender opensource webdev
july 2008 by epersonae

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ongoing · No Secret Software!

"Way back when, she invented the term “Open Source”" I did not know that the term was coined by a woman. huh. interesting ideas here about approaching the problem of closed-source in govt

opensource society politics gender
july 2008 by epersonae

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Scriblio » About Scriblio

that looks cool. will have to check in more detail later.

library opensource wordpress checkback
april 2008 by epersonae

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The Money Pose

wow. what a jerk. (I like my bikram-style yoga class a lot. but still. ugh.)

exercise society opensource yoga
april 2008 by epersonae

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Openness is not a Poison Pill at Yahoo! (by Jeremy Zawodny)

"You'll be reading more and hearing more about openness at Yahoo! [...] in the coming months." that's about what I heard from a yahooligan last week. altho if it ends up ACTING LIKE a poison pill, that's cool too.

opensource webdev
march 2008 by epersonae

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Confessions of a Community College Dean: Selective Outsourcing

Anonymous 6:26's comment is true, but immensely depressing. (I feel like there's got to be a way around it, but I'm not clever enough to think of one.)

academia opensource google
january 2008 by epersonae

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Oren Sreebny's Weblog: Legitimate uses of p2p - updated 10 October

also, OpenOffice, IIRC. (also: Srneebny?!)

opensource society politics misctech
october 2007 by epersonae

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One Laptop Per Child -- XO Giving

"get one give one" -- $400 starting Nov 12. so very tempted.

nonprofit opensource academia gifts misctech
september 2007 by epersonae

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Office 2.0 Database

big list of web-based versions of various business/productivity software