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30in60 - Thirteenth letter - Patricio

I wrote Patricio's letter while sitting in the garden, looking at my kids play. And life was good. So the letter is a set of reflections upon how a letter really is something that we have lost a bit, and how life goes too fast and we want instantaneity and that everything happens right now, right there. And then I talked about my kids, and being a […]

30in60 - Tenth Letter - Erica

Erica is one of the few people I have never met and who have signed up for this experiment. I find that people I do not know at all seem to be the easiest letters to write for some reasons. Maybe because expectation management is fairly easy, they probably have little, and I have none about my writing. Well, I hope to write letters that are at […]

30in60 First letter - Malcolm

First, an apology, in three languages. [FR] J'ai écrit ici les multiples raisons qui font que j'ai du mal à naviguer entre plusieurs langues quand il s'agit d'écrire. Du coup, je vais raconter mon voyage 30-60 dans toutes les langues qui me vont bien, sans traduire. Je vous prie ici de bien vouloir m'en excuser si vous ne comprenez pas. La […]

How long is it since you've received a letter?

I'm talking real letter. A paper thing, with an envelope, a stamp, a hand-written letter. Not an invoice, not an ad, not an official letter from the bank or some government agency. A letter. Written with ink that maybe got stained by tears or just the rain, a letter that tells important things, or nothing. A letter in which someone tells their […]

...Fertig...Los!

So. I've been challenged. Alice read my "obsolètes à prise rapide" and decided she'd play along. The obsolètes don't translate well, unfortunately, as they are issued from a dictionary of obsolete French words that machine translation does not know. But the definitions look funny in German. And in English too, actually. The whole thing […]

Itching

For a few weeks, my friend Consu has started putting her Art online. Maybe it has been longer than that, but I've only noticed it a few weeks ago. Her experiment wakes waves of longing in me. Itching for words, a pen in my hand, the sun in my face and that bloody Spring which just has decided to stay away. Today is a gray day, My son is playing in […]

All Your Money Are Belong To Us

Stu West, treasurer and vice-chair of the Wikimedia Foundation, published an interesting post about "Fundraising, chapters, and movement priorities", where he asks questions. Sebastian Moleski gives a very thoughtful and rational answer based on the idea of subsidiarity (Subsidiarity as a fundamental principle), one which I subscribe to. […]

Do You Scale Well?

Wikipedia Is Ten Years Old: A Human Adventure

Wikipedia turned 10 about a month ago. For me, the adventure is about five and a half years old. I started editing Wikipedia in October 2004. I remember how I found Wikipedia, it was through the Firefox Crew Picks at the time, a bundle of links to cool open source/free websites included in the Firefox browser, which was then in its infancy. I […]

Wikimedia Chapters: We Want to Hire Someone, Where Do We Start? (part II)

This is the second part of a blog post that got way too long to be just one. The first part, which details prerequisites, what Wikimedia chapters do and much more, can be found here. So I left off at the three possible paths I see to professionalisation of a Wikimedia Chapter. Note that I don't necessarily believe that all chapters should […]

Wikimedia Chapters: We Want to Hire Someone, Where Do We Start? (part I)

To this day, there are around 30 Wikimedia Chapters. Wikimedia Chapters, for those who don't know, are national organisations which purpose is to support the Wikimedia Projects. At this point in time, they are organized along national territories. The oldest Wikimedia Chapter, Wikimedia Deutschland (Germany), of which I am a board member at the […]

Everything He Sees

I was sitting in the garden with my son, taking pictures of him because everythinggoes so fast and well, you don't see time pass and should keep memories. He was looking at the house and I realized the morning sun made everything clearly mirror in his eye. I shot. […]

Regression in Evolution, Where Open Source Fails

I seriously don't get it. I really don't. I have worked on finally upgrading my kubuntu from Hardy to Jaunty, and finally embracing KDE4, for better or for worse. You see, I can understand that KDE4 is not perfect, I can understand bugs, I can understand unfinished migrations from 3.5 to 4.x. This all I can understand. What I can't understand (and […]

There Are Way Too Many Beautiful Pictures...

...on Wikimedia Commons. The vote for the Picture of the Year 2008 has begun and like every year, I am flabbergasted with the amount of amazing pictures that Commons reveals. I thought I would list here my criteria for choosing the pictures I supported this year. This is how I proceed: Look at the gallery Click on the pictures that catch my eye […]

Why Standards and Open Source Advocates Should Start Working in the Real World Again

No seriously, I am extremely angry right now. I've installed KDE 4.2 a few days ago and so far, I am pretty happy with it. Mind you, it's not for the faint of heart and I still think it was a huge mistake to ship it with Kubuntu Intrepid, because it is way too advanced (or not enough, depending on how you look at it) for the basic user, but that […]

Copyright and Free Licenses, Much Done, Still Much to Do

It is interesting to see how far Creative Commons licenses have gone, and as interesting to note how much work there is to do in order to make free licenses enter everyday's world. Netzpolitik reports that Al Jazeera put their video footage from the war in Israel under a CC-BY license, and that is great news indeed. It goes to prove how important […]

Some optimism

Source: Geek & Poke […]

It's an Honor, Mr President

There is something smug about having the next president of the United States follow me on Twitter. Even if I am one in tens of thousands and it's probably not him twittering and all. […]

Why I don't always go for free

Résumé en français : Pourquoi je choisis pas toujours le libre. J'ai peu de photos sur Flickr, comparé aux nombres impressionnants de quelques-uns. La plupart de mes photos sont sous licence Creative Commons, cc-by-sa (paternité-partage à l'identique), mais pas toutes. Je garde la totalité de mes droits par défaut sur toutes les photos où l'on voit et peut reconnaître quelqu'un (que je connais ou pas), pour une raison qui vient d'être illustrée par l'utilisation par l'agence de pub de Virgin Mobile en Australie, qui a utilisé des photos de Flickr sous licence CC-BY (paternité) et en a fait... ce qu'elle a voulu, sans plus se soucier de demander quoi que ce soit, à qui que ce soit. Bien sûr, c'est "libre". Mais dans ces cas-là, je suis pour l'adage qui dit "la liberté des uns s'arrête où commence celle des autres.'"

Give me a sec', I need to reboot

So I am back from Copenhagen, where I was at the 9th edition of Reboot.

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