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Update: my talk has been covered by OLPC News. Here’s the video of the talk I said I’d be giving at OSDC 2011, titled Australia’s Toughest Linux Deployment: In it, I outline our educational programme and how the technology fits into it. Some key points:...
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Two weeks ago, we had the Education Expo. Here’s my report, as co-ordinator of the Linux Australia stand: Education Expo Sat 14 to Sun 15 June Rosehill Racecourse, Sydney The Education Expo is an annual trades show targeted towards the K‑12...
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The Education Expo is on this weekend. I’ve sent a couple of missives to our helpers. The second one contains some advice that would work well in many situations regarding FOSS (especially where marketing is concerned), so I’ll reproduce it (slightly...
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The second Open CeBIT in Sydney ended last week. Forming a section of the much larger CeBIT expo, Open CeBIT focused on open source technologies and solutions. I was involved in three stands: BizCubed (my employer), Linux Australia and Open Source...
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I promised way back in January that we’d release a video of that month’s SLUG meeting — our up-close-and-personal with Microsoft. We did just that a month ago, but I totally forgot to mention it here. I know, I suck. Anyway, you can get the video and slides...
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The last two weeks have been quite eventful. Each of these probably deserves its own blog post, but since I don’t have the time to write them all I’ll just give a summary. Document Freedom Day, 26 March The first annual Document Freedom Day (inspired by...
