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Speaking about free software in Huskvarna (Sweden), but missed Stockholm

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | Copyleft, Copyright, FOSDEM, Free Software, GNU, Software, conference, event | No Comments

Since we’ve been experiencing the most snow for many many years in Sweden the trains and the tubes don’t seem to be on schedule. And add to that the presentation in Huskvarna (see below) tomorrow it didn’t take much to convince my self and the others (Johan Thelin, Jonas Öberg and Jeremiah Foster) to bail out of the foss-sthlm meeting. Would have been great to see Simon Josefson (he couldn’t come to FOSDEM) and finally buy him the dinner I still owe him.  ….. which reminds me of that ams all of a sudden claims he owes me a dinner. Strange days indeed

Tomorrow I’ll be speaking in Huskvarna about free software. It’s a bit of a tailor made presentation which has been very fun to elaborate on during the last weeks. I’ve made some new friends through this presentation so even before it feels great. Here’s the invitation.

I will speak a bit about the history of free software, GNU, copyright/copyleft, licenses, project management and motivation in the community and bridge to the next speaker (Jeremiah (see above)) by talking a bit about Moblin and Maemo … and yes, Meego.

FOSDEM – here we go

Friday, February 5th, 2010 | FOSDEM, FSCONS, Free Software, GNU, Software, Uncategorized, X11, conference, event | No Comments

… having finished a hectic period I must say that leaving for FOSDEM tomorrow morning feels great. I will team up with Daniel Stenberg, Magnus Hagander and of course some GNUs, I know that some of the people at last year’s GNU Hackers Meeting (held the days before FSCONS) will come over to FOSDEM as well . Going to be great meeting Brian Gough and Jose E. Marchesi while I am not stressed of work overload, GHM planning and FSCONS planning. Brian and Jose were organising the GNU Hackers Meeting with me.    … and as always I’ll team up with the FSFE folks.

As for the presentations I will surely go and see:

• Sylvain Beucler talk about GNU Savannah: 100% free software mass-hosting

a topic I find interesting for many reasons, more on that later

• Daniel Stenberg talk about Rockbox: open source firmware replacement for music players

since I missed Daniel talk about this at FSCONS. As a FSCONS organiser I can’t just sit

• Mirko Lindner, Jon Phillips talk about Copyleft Hardware and the Ben Nanonote

I missed Mirko’s presentation at FSCONS as well …. always on the move at FSCONS

And, of course I hope I will be able to do some business (Sandklef GNU Labs) down there. During some breaks I will prepare some presentations at “my” University next week and also prepare a Free Software presentation for a company later on in February (more on that later).

This year I’ll be traveling with Andreas Nilsson and Jeremiah Foster.  Same procedure as last year…

see you there

… did you see how I managed to mention FSCONS 6 times (including that very last)

GNU Xnee 3.05 ‘Merry X11-mas’ released

Thursday, December 24th, 2009 | Free Software, GNU, GNU Xnee, Software | No Comments

We are pleased to announce the availability of GNU Xnee 3.05

GNU Xnee is a suite of programs that can record, replay and distribute
user actions under the X11 environment. Think of it as a robot that can
imitate the job you just did. GNU Xnee can be used to:
Automate tests
Demonstrate programs
Distribute actions
Record and replay ‘macro’
Retype the content of a file

Getting the Software
====================

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.05.tar.gz

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.05.tar.gz.sig

or one of the mirror sites as found in:

http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html

Checksums
===========

md5sum:
0ba4ea4f6102bcc0b478f4a6fe787b0b  xnee-3.05.tar.gz

cksum:
3878268877 1666788 xnee-3.05.tar.gz

New in this release
===================

* Fixed bugs reported on bug-xnee@gnu.org:
“Bug report: libpanelapplet-2.0″ (12/15/2009 11:07 AM)
“Bug report: No package ‘libgnomeui-2.0′ found”
(12/15/2009 11:03 AM)
“Configure Error” (12/15/2009 11:07 AM)
“Error in configure.” (12/15/2009 11:09 AM)
“Building from CVS” (12/17/2009 07:19 PM)

* Build changes:
configure bails out when building any gui
and no pkg-config installed

Better help during configure if no gtk, gnomeui found

Telling user to run configure with –enable-doc option set,
when building from CVS (make -f Makefile.cvs)

New file (README.cvs) to ease up for users building from CVS

What is futsanaj

Thursday, December 24th, 2009 | Free Software, GNU, GNU Xnee, Software | No Comments

Last release of GNU Xnee was called ‘futsanaj’. What does ‘futsanaj’ mean?

It’s the name of a song one of my daughters wanted me to play while driviing the car. She became frustrated and tried to give me hints such as “you know the song Ella likes”… after a while she said something about a Doctor. Then, it stuck me.

Such a night with Dr John

When Signe tried to say Such a night, it became futsanaj.