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Dru
A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru
by Dru (SysAdmin, Technical Writer, Technical Trainer)
 
MeetBSD Slides and Video
The slides from the MeetBSD California presentations are available for download here. Last I heard, the videos are a work in progress but the video from my presentation is available as a .mov here and here and as a .flv here.
Posted 11/21/2008
MeetBSD California Presentations
Here are my notes from the presentations I attended. The slides from my talk on BSD Certification as well as the other presenter's slides should show up on the conference website within the next few days. The talks were also videotaped--though I don't know when the...
Posted 11/16/2008
BSDFund Projects
BSD Fund announced two projects this month. For those not familiar with the Fund, it is a 501(c)(3) non-profit (i.e. can issue US tax receipts) which funds cross-BSD projects, events and initiatives. The two active projects are:
Posted 11/12/2008
Open Source and Healthcare
The November issue of the OSBR is now available in HTML and PDF formats at the OSBR website. The theme this month is "Health and Life Sciences" and Brian Barry and Peter Tanner from Open Health Tools are this month's guest editors. The articles in this issue include:
Posted 11/11/2008
Kmix on KDE4
I finally had a chance to install PC-BSD 7 Fibonacci over the weekend and am working my way through a love/hate relationship with KDE4. My current opinion is that I love the new interface but hate how everything is just "different" enough to keep me scratching my head as I retrain my daily...
Posted 11/5/2008
Zipping between Windows and *nix
I discovered this trick the other day when someone sent me a file which had been zipped using the latest version of Winzip.
Posted 11/5/2008 / Comments (2)
DCBSDCon & Shmoocon
DCBSDCon was announced yesterday and has been timed to occur the Wednesday and Thursday before Shmoocon.
Posted 11/3/2008
FSOSS 2008: Community Building and the Architecture of Participation
Here are my notes from the final session of the conference.
Posted 10/24/2008
FSOSS 2008: Subverting Proprietary Economics
Here are my notes from the second afternoon session.
Posted 10/24/2008
FSOSS 2008: Innovation in Open Source Development
Here are my notes from the first afternoon session.
Posted 10/24/2008
FSOSS 2008: Creative Commons and Creative Copyright Licensing
Here are my notes from the final talk of the morning.
Posted 10/24/2008
FSOSS 2008: The Convergence of Open Access and Open Source
Here are my notes from the second morning session.
Posted 10/24/2008
FSOSS 2008: Enabling Healthy Open Source Communities
Here are my notes from the first session for Day 2 of FSOSS.
Posted 10/24/2008
FSOSS 2008: Teaching Open Source: Next Steps
Here are my notes from the afternoon's second panel session.
Posted 10/23/2008
FSOSS 2008: Teaching Open Source: Community's Perspective
Here's my notes from the afternoon's first panel session.
Posted 10/23/2008
FSOSS 2008: Komodo: Making Proprietary Products Open Source
Here are my notes from this session.
Posted 10/23/2008
FSOSS 2008: CSIA and Copyright Policy
Here are my notes from this session.
Posted 10/23/2008
FSOSS 2008: Teaching Open Source: Students' Perspective
I'm at the 7th Annual Seneca Free Software and Open Source Symposium at York University in Toronto, Canada. Here are my notes from the first morning session.
Posted 10/23/2008
FSOSS and OnLinux
I'm off to Toronto today to attend FSOSS and OnLinux. If Internet access is good, I'll blog the FSOSS talks. I'll be at the GTABUG at OnLinux handing out copies of PCBSD, both the latest version (with KDE 4) and the version before (with KDE 3).
Posted 10/22/2008 / Comments (1)
Community Building: NetBSD in Hindsight
Four developers from the NetBSD project are featured in this month's issue of the OSBR. From the article abstract:
Posted 10/22/2008
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