RMS
In the first edition of the Hacker’s Dictionary, he wrote, “‘Richard Stallman’ is just my mundane name; you can call me ‘rms’.”
Inspiration
Author: aimeemaree
Conference
Open Education Workshop 2008
On November 21 there was the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, Conference, Education held at Macquarie University. As normal i rocked up late, not to late but missed the morning introductions. Enjoyed the morning talk on LAMS and its use for facilitating open education. There was also a discussion from DET about how they are trying to use open software to facilitate teacher collaboration. There was opposition present from TAFE teachers who believe management are…
Technology
Internet Filtering Proposal Forum
Considering my work is based on the internet with the Australian Labor Party stating that they are going to re-open the case for internet filtering in Australia I decided that I needed to attended the proposal forum. The forum was held on the 27 November 2008 at the University of New South Wales. I got there about 15 minutes late so missed the introductions which I was not to upset about. The discussions where interesting…
Conference
Drupal Camp
The first Drupal Camp Australia happened with great success. The venue was booked out and rooms where overflowing. The Australian Learning and Teaching Council proudly sponsored Lunch for the event. People had traveled from all around Australia and New Zealand. There was two rooms with the streams split across both rooms. The facility was fantastic great catering provided (thanks Australian Learning Teaching Council and Cochlear). I learnt alot from the day and was fantastic to…
Conference
Drupal meet-up – August 2008
Thursday, August 21st 2008 I nervously accepted to give a talk this month. Nervous as it as only been since April that I have been working extensively with Drupal. Only a month before just finishing my last custom content management system. I had worked alot with Joomla, Gallery, phpBB and multitudes of open source systems over the years but I had not really had a deep need to be exposed to Drupal. I had looked…
Inspiration
Unearthing the origins of Firefox
An older but great article on the origins of Firefox, an interview with Ben Goodger who in 2004 was Lead Engineer on Mozilla Firefox. Some great discussions on the past of the browser and why it is important to preserve history. “You have to aim big. Otherwise, why even try? You don’t get there by aiming for 5 percent or 10 percent.” -¬ Ben Goodger http://news.cnet.com/Unearthing-the-origins-of-Firefox/2008-1032_3-5406708.html