Thanks to Alex Yarrow for sharing her conference notes!
Went to this great session at Ontario Library Ass’n conference about e-IFL FOSS. Thought you might be interested.
Here are my notes:
OK – what is eIFL-FOSS? Electronic Information for Libraries: Free and Open Source Software.
From their website: “eIFL-FOSS advocates free and open source software (FOSS) use […]
I’ve had the Costory site open as a tab for way too many days, even weeks now, trying to figure out what and how to blog about it. Costory is a collaborative story space, a tool for perpetual group authorship of limitless story projects, run on Mediawiki, like the Wikipedia. It’s a conundrum because the […]
Thank you again to Avaaz:
Here is an email from Asma Jahangir, head of the Pakistani Human Rights Commission and the UN’s Special Rapporteur for freedom of religion worldwide. Now under house arrest in Lahore, she’s one of many Pakistanis urgently asking the world community to raise our voice:
There is a strong crackdown on […]
From Cinema Politica
THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK
MONDAY, OCTOBER 29 @ 7:30pm
Concordia University: Henry F. Hall Bldg – Room H-110
1455 de Maisonneuve West, Montreal QC
Screening by donation, and open to the public.
Film info and trailer available at: http://www.cinemapolitica.org/films/60
A CO-PRESENTATION OF: Cinema Politica (Concordia University), Save Darfur Canada & The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human […]
From the Guardian.
Amnesty International yesterday said the junta was still receiving military equipment from China, Russia, Ukraine, and India.
The Burmese generals claim to have released all but 500 of the Buddhist monks and other demonstrators detained since last month’s pro-democracy protests. But the senior British diplomat, briefing journalists yesterday on condition of anonymity, gave […]
Again from Avaaz:
(and thanks thanks thanks to them again for keeping us connected and informed)
Burma’s streets are quiet–no mass demonstrations, no riot police. But the calm is an illusion. Change is coming to Burma, and we are all a part of it.
Here’s where we stand: The regime has massacred, tortured, and intimidated its critics at […]
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