About the title of this blog
The first title was "Another blog about free software". Later I changed it to "The bright side" as a tribute of Monty Python's "Always look at the bright side of life" (from Brian's Life film). The background philosophy of free software and its communities also make me feel these good vibrations coming from the bright side of life.
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A new home for Debian in the Mastodon / ActivityPub fediverse: follow @debian@framapiaf.org (and possible future moves)
TL;DR Recent events in the fediverse in general and related to fosstodon.org instance in particular have made me rethink the place where I’d like to handle the @debian account in the Mastodon/GNU Social/ActivityPub fediverse. I couldn’t decide a “final” place … Continue reading
Posted in My experiences and opinion, News
Tagged Community, Debian, English, FaiF SaaS, federation, fediverse, SaaS, selfhosting, social networks
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Long summer story, Welcome team, and I am a Debian Developer now
Note: 2015/10/16: I need to add some links but I won’t delay this more, posting now, will edit later. Summer ended long time ago, but believe me, I’m still catching up with all the things that I began in June/July, … Continue reading
Posted in My experiences and opinion, News
Tagged Communities, Contributing to libre software, Debian, Developer motivations, encryption, English, Free Software, gpg, libre software
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Conversión de Identi.ca a pump.io
Este documento es la traducción al español del original en inglés Identi.ca conversion to pump.io, escrito por Evan Prodromou. Este artículo está bajo una licencia CC-By (Creative Commons Reconocimiento 3.0 Unported). El servicio de red social Identi.ca se cambiará a … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged Español, Free Software, identi.ca, Moving into free software, translations
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Migración a software libre y prescindir de licencias en la UPM
La Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, donde trabajo, está inmersa en un proceso de ajustes presupuestarios y negociación de posible reducción en la partida de gastos de personal. El software ha entrado en la negociación, pues los representantes de los trabajadores … Continue reading
FLOSS Events Calendar
I decided to maintain a calendar about events related with Free, Libre, Open Source Software. I think it’s interesting even if you cannot attend any conference or meeting, since there are a lot of resources that you can get: slides … Continue reading
On holiday
I have just finished my first academic year as student of Master on Libre Software at URJC so this blog is on holiday until September 2011. This means several things: I will try to post these two months too, but … Continue reading
Mobile and embedded producers get more involved in Linux kernel development
The Linux Foundation released its annual Kernel Development Report, tracking the amount of changes and contributions to the Linux OS kernel. The top kernel contributors remain the same: Red Hat, Novell, IBM and Intel. (We will see next year what … Continue reading
VLC in Apple Store; GPL violation?
VLC is a popular multimedia player distributed under GPLv2 license. Few weeks ago one of the main VLC developers, Rémi Denis-Courmont, claimed against VLC distribution in Apple Store, arguing GPL violation due to Apple’s restrictions on usage for the software … Continue reading
Oracle won’t collaborate on LibreOffice
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols from ComputerWorld writes in “The OpenOffice fork is officially here” about a mail received from Oracle after OpenOffice’s newborn fork LibreOffice. Oracle encourages the OpenOffice community to contribute directly to it. Although explaining that The Document Foundation … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged LibreOffice, mswl, mswl-intro, OpenOffice
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LibreOffice, a fork of OpenOffice, from The Document Foundation
After Oracle adquired Sun Microsistems, many of the Sun’s projects of free software now depend on Oracle, a company with a complex relationship with the free software community. Today I learned that the community of volunteers developing and promoting OpenOffice.org … Continue reading
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Tagged Free Software, LibreOffice, mswl, mswl-intro, OpenOffice
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