Ahh Treehugger, supporting those guys sneakily bringing the peeps around to the wide and wonderful world of open source…
Microsoft’s Vista is taking a beating. It’s expensive. Greenpeace says it’s going to generate mountains of eWaste by trashing at least 10 million PCs. Here’s an idea - why don’t you try what this guy did […]
Evelyn, my namesake, died today. My mum named me Risa Evelyn because Risa means laughter and Evelyn had always been able to laugh through things and make my mum laugh. My mum told me that for the first time today.
From a Contributor working in Health Care in Egypt:
It is starting make some sense today. It helped when someone said that the metaphor for Egyptian management and leadership styles lies in their driving. It is totally instinctive and improvisational. Everyone goes as fast as they can, ignoring any formal rules but guided by some very […]
more details on where cuba’s at with open source, from the article in the
All the cool kids are doing it..
Cuba latest to endorse open source software
Cuba’s communist government has said that they are now considering adopting open source software to remove their reliance on the software giant Microsoft.
The government said that they are trying to wean state agencies from Microsoft’s proprietary Windows to the open-source Linux operating system.
Expert […]
this i found pretty shocking:
while indeed a minority of information technology workers were women (roughly 20%), an even more staggering minority — to the tune of 1.5% — of free software contributors were women. The reasons given for this disparity were many and mostly related to cultural roles and expectations for women in the western […]
