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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)

fnoss.org – next step

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

This is text copied from: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/fsfe-nordic/2009-August/000109.html

hi all,

 fnoss.org has been running for a while now. For some of us it has been
the main source for news about the Free Software situation in the Nordic
countries.

 Here is some stuff that would be great to get some input on:

 * Language specific sections
 -------------------------------------------------------
   One plan is to make, for example, a Norwegian section with a bit
broader scope of bloggers.... and in the Norwegian languages only.

   Given that we have some languages that crosses national borders, e g
Sami, the country division may not be optimal so we propose language
specific.

   This also implies that the main site (fnoss.org) will be in english
only. Bloggers who blogs in english and another language may have to be
forced to use a "fnoss-en" tag of some kind to get to the main site.

   Example: http://itupw056.itu.chalmers.se/se-fnoss-rss/

 * Mailing lists, Twitter feeds
 -------------------------------------------------------

   We've added some software to scrape Mailing lists and include twitter
feeds and turn them into rss.

   Future plans: forum, ...... any ideas

 * New pages and a new interface
 -------------------------------------------------------

   The pages/new interface are
    1. Mailing lists  - from ML only
    2. Blogs - from blogs
    3. Twitter - from twitter
    4. All feeds in one  (1, 2 and 3)
    5. All feeds (as 4.) with a new layout

   Examples (beta versions (Swedish mainly)):
    1. http://itupw056.itu.chalmers.se/se-fnoss-ml/
    2. http://itupw056.itu.chalmers.se/se-fnoss-rss/
    3. http://itupw056.itu.chalmers.se/se-fnoss-twitter/
    4. http://itupw056.itu.chalmers.se/se-fnoss/
    5. http://itupw056.itu.chalmers.se/se-fnoss/template_test/

Grand dad, is it true

Thursday, February 26th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Given this week news about a woman, which by some are called princess, in Sweden getting married, I imagined a future conversation with my possible grandchildren:

- Grand dad, is it really true that Sweden had a king and queen before I was born?

- Yes, it is true

- Just like in Cinderella and Snowy white ….

- Yup

- But what did they do all day long?

- I have no idea…. I have no idea

I heard that the marriage is going to cost at least 2 000 000 Euros. Can anyone think about better way to spend that money?

… I can. Indeed I can.

xorg on a Panasonic TX32 LE7FA. Anyone?

Thursday, January 29th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Has anyone got Xorg to work nicely with Panasonic TX32LE7FA.

It seems to be a clear no, but before I dive into endless modelines settings I might as well ask.