It sounds like people arriving Friday may avoid slushy highways, but
what will they be like on Monday morning after all of the snow or ice
that's supposed to fall Friday night and this weekend?
Hello, Noah, Brendan, and friends,
Thank you for your kindness. I'm writing this at NRT Airport.
On 03/19/2015 04:48 AM, Noah Vesely wrote:
> It seems nobody responded to you on this, but if you have already (or
> when) you have figured this out, please let us know the time(s) you will
> be givn
Libre is indeed perfectly fine as long as it gets over the one burden of
becoming acceptable for English.
But note that "FLOSS" is lousy while "FLO" is fine. And that's why
Snowdrift.coop has embraced "FLO" because we're not strictly about software
anyway.
The simple fact is, unless we could m
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:18:19AM -0500, m...@picaflor-azul.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> >And I am not saying we should not use "libre" -- au contraire! But
> >IMVHO we
> >should definitely not say "the term free is lost, too many people
> >use it in
> >the wrong sense".
>
> I've thought about this q
Excellent. "Free software" works just fine. Brand flipping is a loss. It
gains no new adherents and confuses the people drifting at the edges who you
might have mobilized. It would be foolish to dropping the term "free
software" because the bullies have mounted a propaganda campaign against i
I talk a little about running Virtual Box in my x61s write up.
http://50.80.140.55/photo_album/chron/desktop/thinkpad/x61s.html
I've only seen Qemu run on an Elive CD, and it was awesome, but I don't know
how to run it myself. Virtual Box is click and drool easy now.
I don't think you will g
Ah, well, I see you there at least. Hopefully everyone else that needs
to will find the wiki page or this thread.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015, at 19:17, Brendan Kidwell wrote:
> You can use this wiki page
> https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2015/Lightning_Talks
> to register yourself in
Yutaka,
I'm sorry no one has replied with this info yet. If you didn't notice it
on your own yet, please see the conference schedule at this URL:
https://libreplanet.org/2015/program/grid-schedule.html . Lighting talk
sessions are in the first two non-plenary sessions on Saturday.
You can use th
Well, there's one thing that's factually clear already: "Free" and "Open" both
had lots of uses *before* anyone tried to apply them strictly to ideals about
software and licensing etc. — "Libre" is fundamentally a more precise term that
has only ever been used in the manner we intend. In other w
Dnia środa, 18 marca 2015 09:00:18 Aaron Wolf pisze:
> > As soon as "libre" will start to be recognizable at large, "libre-washing"
> > *will* start. Partly due to misunderstanding of the term, partly due to
> > conscious manipulation of people/organisations trying to profit from it
> > without rea
Hi Niibe,
It seems nobody responded to you on this, but if you have already (or
when) you have figured this out, please let us know the time(s) you will
be givng your lightning talk(s). I am very interested in your work and
seeing you present!
Noah
NIIBE Yutaka:
> Hello,
>
> I will join LibrePl
Hello,
And I am not saying we should not use "libre" -- au contraire! But
IMVHO we
should definitely not say "the term free is lost, too many people use
it in
the wrong sense".
I've thought about this quite a bit. I really like the term Libre
Software. Being pretty fluent in Spanish it imme
On 19/03/15 02:14, Michael Siepmann wrote:
> Thanks. Your thoughts led me to the idea of trying Wine in a
> virtualized instance of GNU/Linux, so any Windows applications would be
> sandboxed and not have access to my physical computer. (I see at
> http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f566a12c806a1eac
> As soon as "libre" will start to be recognizable at large, "libre-washing"
> *will* start. Partly due to misunderstanding of the term, partly due to
> conscious manipulation of people/organisations trying to profit from it
> without really heeding its values.
>
> And I am not saying we shoul
> Looking beyond software, The Free Culture movement associated with
> Lawrence Lessig prides itself on having created an ecosystem where
> people can decide what freedom means to them and use any Creative
> Commons licence (including non-libre licences such as those with NC
> and ND terms).
>
I
Thanks. Your thoughts led me to the idea of trying Wine in a
virtualized instance of GNU/Linux, so any Windows applications would be
sandboxed and not have access to my physical computer. (I see at
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f566a12c806a1eacaeefb7cb6419a513a773c571
that there are also other
streo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 03:07:38AM +0100, rysiek wrote:
Hi there, the Gitlab/Gitorius situation rekindled my interest in
what I would call the "next step" in software development
management -- a truly decentralised/federated platform. Next step
would b
I'm pretty sure that's what the term "libre" is for.
Il 17 marzo 2015 20:13:46 CET, Patrick Anderson ha scritto:
>> It boggles my mind that
>> these simple and so important ideas about software and freedom, which
>are so
>> obvious to me, are so far out of the reach of so many people.
>
>It boggl
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Dnia wtorek, 17 marca 2015 22:50:21 Aaron Wolf pisze:
> I'm sorry, but it's ok to take a stand for "free software" only in the
> context that you want to go about explaining it — which we *should*
> want to do, but can't always be done.
>
> "Open" has always been an inadequate term from the beginn
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On 17/03/2015 20:13, Patrick Anderson wrote:
> It boggles my mind that we refuse to acknowledge most people *already*
> understand the term "Free Software" to mean "Freeware".
>
> Why are we so damn stubborn about such an unimportant detail that
> a
I'd go with libre:
http://wikieducator.org/Say_Libre
and work towards keeping it unambiguous:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre_%28word%29
Looking beyond software, The Free Culture movement associated with
Lawrence Lessig prides itself on having created an ecosystem where
people can decide wh
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