Archive for the 'Free Software' Category
Friday, July 15th, 2011
Stumbled across the Open Source Project OpenTox. The goal of OpenTox is to develop an interoperable predictive toxicology framework which may be used as an enabling platform for the creation of predictive toxicology applications. http://www.opentox.org/ It might not be obvious (??) from reading this but OpenTox is actually our friend!! The aim of this project is to develop software [...]
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
A Conference for Serious Hackers, but hopefully interesting for us n00bs as well, is arranged by Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE): FSCONS or the Free Software Conference in Scandinavia There will be lots of exciting happenings and exciting people; like a Key Signing Party and lots of interesting lectures, including one about the rare ch1X0r. [...]
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
You can now listen to the speech rms gave in Gothenburg. The site to visit is the: Official rms in Gothenburg 2007 Web Site Found out about it first: Straight from the Horse’s Mouth in a Patisserie over a Slice of Delicious Cake.
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Thursday, May 24th, 2007
The article, which is in Swedish, is entitled Om befrielsen av cyberspace – ett samtal med Richard Stallman Since I have a master’s thesis to write I will have to wait until tonight to actually read it but I scanned the first couple of paragraphs quickly and I was very intrigued by this quote: Redan [...]
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
The Cute Baby GNU © Etienne Suvasa So the 16th of May came and went and rms came and went with it. And Gothenburg is still shaking in the aftermath of the shock waves of Freedom… Today’s paper issue of Computer Sweden for instance carried a long article about Saint Ignucius and the Four Basic [...]
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Saint Ignucius a.k.a rms photo by Wouter van Oortmerssen rms, the Famous Founding Father of the Free Software Foundation, is coming to Sweden to give a speech at the University of Gothenburg! If there ever was a reason to visit Sweden’s second largest city this must be it!! The occasion is just too … too [...]
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
Google Summer of Code 2007 has chosen the library project LibLime Developers as one of the mentor organisations for their student project. So all gifted students who wants to can now hack some open source library code! Found out about it on LIS News, of course! And if you are interested in the past there [...]
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
FSF Europe has got themselves a new member! Celebrations are in order Congratulations to a really good choice; may the marriage between Creative Commons Sweden and the Free Software Foundation Europe be a long and happy one!!
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
The GNU/Linux distro White Box derived from Red Hat is actually put together by the librarians at The Beauregard Parish Library. Again librarians prove themselves the Epitome of Geekiness and the Protectors of Freedom! This software is believed to be freely redistributable under the terms of the Free/Open Source licenses of each of it’s components. [...]
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
If you have access to Swedish Television tonight (Third of May) at 21.30 pm, or on the Fourth or Sixth of May, and understand Swedish you can learn more about Darknets & the Freenet Project by watching Vetenskapsmagasinet. So what are you waiting for?? There is finally a reason to turn that thing on!!
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