I'd be up for an ad hoc meeting.
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I'd strongly urge you to spread the choice petition:
https://choice.good.do/dont-trade-it-away/release-the-tpp-text/
The leaked draft talks about criminalising copyright infringement, rigid
rules around exceptions to copyright, rules around exceptions to
patentability, legal enforcement of DRM,
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Linux Australia and linux.conf.au 2014 are pleased to announce the 2014
travel grants programme.
linux.conf.au strives to be a conference that is open and accessible
Hi all,
There is an Oceania Women Of Open Technology (OWOOT) picnic coming up in
December. Partners and children welcome.
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It's going to be at 1pm Saturday 14th of December at the western lawn in
the botanic gardens.
RSVP, dietary requirements
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Linux Australia and linux.conf.au 2014 are pleased to announce the 2014
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Hi all,
The geek feminism wiki article on preventing volunteer burnout:
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Preventing_volunteer_burnout.
That article and person experience were my main sources.
Cheers,
Bianca
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Hi everyone,
I intended to post the recipe for the vegan chocolate and avocado cake I
made for the meeting quite a while ago, so here it is:
http://joythebaker.com/2009/07/vegan-chocolate-avocado-cake/
That blog is really good. It's a baking blog that doesn't specialise in
particular dietary
Hi all,
Are we meeting on Thursday? I haven't seen an announcement for it, but I've
prepared my talk/discussion on volunteer burnout, as I mentioned to Alex at
SFD.
I'd also like to give a 5 minute talk on LA stuff.
Cheers,
Bianca
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Registrations for StixCampGembrook are open!
StixCampGembrook is a weekend unconference event running from the 1st -
3rd November 2013. Participants will spend 2 full days networking with
like-minded others, sharing their knowledge, and learning from others. The
venue is a
Would someone like to write an article on SFD or any other relevant topics
for the Linux Australia newsletter?
Details of our newsletter here:
http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2013-September/020834.html
Cheers,
Bianca
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Hi all,
It was good fun.
The FSF campaigns team would like photos and videos sent to
campai...@fsf.org.
Cheers,
Bianca
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Subject: [lca-announce] lca2014 keynote - Jon Oxer - ArduSat
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p...@plug.org.au p...@plug.org.au
of the 2007 and 2008 miniconfs.
Bianca Gibson. Bianca will assist with the call for papers and selecting
presentations. Bianca was co-organiser of the 2013 Haecksen miniconf.
== About OWOOT ==
OWOOT (Oceania Women of Open Tech, formerly Aussiechix) was formed in
October 2011, but grew out of women's
I'll bring snacks, including some vegan ones.
On 13 July 2013 20:57, Adam Bolte abo...@systemsaviour.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
Our next monthly meet-up will soon be upon us, and we've got a great
line-up of talks and discussions prepared, including:
* Pirate Party's take on copyright,
I'll bring english breakfast tea cupcakes (with dairy) and vegan avocado
and chocolate cake.
On 18 July 2013 12:20, Adam Bolte abo...@systemsaviour.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:38:50AM +1000, Bianca Gibson wrote:
I'll bring snacks, including some vegan ones.
Ben F and Ben M also
I'm not sure if I'll be able to make it this time, I'll try to.
I know that I said I'd help lead the discussion, sorry about that.
On 16 April 2013 17:56, Ben Sturmfels b...@stumbles.id.au wrote:
Hi Folks,
Our monthly discussion group is on this Thursday 18 April. Look forward
to seeing you
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Subject: [OWOOT] Do you want a free ticket to DrupalCon Sydney (Feb 6 to 9)?
To: Oceania Women of Open Tech ow...@lists.owoot.org
Cc:
Linux Australia is giving one away. You need to apply for it
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Date: 3 Jan 2013 16:33
Subject: [MLUG] Sir Tim Berners-Lee Down Under
To: mlug...@googlegroups.com
Cc:
Thought you guys might be interested:
Free event, from the event site:
The Melbourne public event is
I'm...not exactly happy either.
On 31 May 2012 21:38, Matt Giuca matt.gi...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I'm pretty furious about this.
I understand that it's a difficult circumstance, and I read the You've
Sold Out section and all that... but this is ridiculous.
Please don't blame the fedora
On 31 May 2012 22:55, Matt Giuca matt.gi...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah I know.
I said on my Google Plus
posthttps://plus.google.com/108688191891412975833/posts/Ty72kHyT9KV:
Did Fedora make the right choice? I honestly don't know, but it's
disgraceful that it has come to this.
OK, I just
I don't know if it's worldwide, good point.
On 26 April 2012 21:33, Matt Giuca matt.gi...@gmail.com wrote:
Cool. Until now I've pretty much avoided not only buying ebooks, but
avoided the topic entirely. I wasn't prepared for DRM on plain text!!!
Thanks for finding these links.
Is it also
Awesome - that will aid my transition to ebooks HEAPS since I don't buy
them if they have DRM. They were one of the reasons my fiction is still
physical books, while my non fiction is mainly ebooks.
On 26 April 2012 17:37, Andrew McGlashan
andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote:
On
On 22 April 2012 14:06, Matt Giuca matt.gi...@gmail.com wrote:
My assessment is that iOS is completely incompatible with free software. My
close (non-lawyer) reading of the (L)GPL v2 and 3 finds that it would be a
violation of the GPL to distribute software via the App Store. Regardless
of
Wha? Sorry =/. I thought it was something sent to the FSF mailing list, it
had the same footer and I forgot that he'd have my email address. Ughk...
*frustrated face at self*.
On 26 February 2012 19:03, Ben Finney ben+freesoftw...@benfinney.id.auwrote:
Bianca Gibson
bianca.rachel.gib
It just didn't cross my mind I'd be getting be specifically getting invited
to it, I thought it was going to everyone on their mailing list in
Melbourne.
On 27 February 2012 09:59, Adrian Colomitchi acolomit...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Ben Finney
Here's the mystery event (I'm guessing).
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From: Brett Smith br...@fsf.org
Date: 24 February 2012 15:00
Subject: Interested in possible FSF events in Melbourne?
To: Bianca Gibson -@-
Hi Bianca,
My name's Brett Smith; I'm the license compliance
On 23 February 2012 22:37, Ben Sturmfels b...@stumbles.id.au wrote:
On 23/02/12 22:29, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
One recommendation discussed was to speak up if you notice bad behavior.
This
is especially important for the blokes who can have significant influence
in
these situations.
What time do meetings normally end? Dinner? Just asking, because if I
can attend or not depends on my travel plans being worked out in
advance. Ideally I need to be on the 7:17pm or 8:11pm Belgrave train
to meet one of the last two buses for the day.
Meetings normally finish at 7:30, dinner I
Ben, you said you are applying the 'Divide and Conquer' approach to
patents (since patents are probably also a real problem in other
industries). If software patents as a whole is too large a chunk,
perhaps dividing out free software as the first step will be easier? I
don't know the
On 12 February 2012 22:54, Adam Bolte abo...@systemsaviour.com wrote:
My understanding is that we're *already* going off guesswork. We're
guessing that going against software patents completely is a better
approach to any of the alternatives, without having consulted with any
legal experts.
Changing the subject won't start a new thread of discussion; the
In-Reply-To headers preserve the thread regardless of the Subject
headers of the messages. It's preferable to use the compose new email
to this address feature of your email client instead of reply.
Cheers,
Andrew
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