Ubuntu has been encouraging local teams to take shape to help "advocate, promote, translate, develop and otherwise improve Ubuntu." Information on the Austin...
Over the weekend, Google quietly began including Sun's StarOffice suite of word processing, spreadsheets and other workplace-oriented programs for free as part...
... I like it, but I wonder what the motivation is? It is just anti-Microsoft spite, or does Google benefit in some way by helping to promote open source...
... Well, first off, they aren't *really* promoting open source software - Star Office is not open source - it's got a fair bit of proprietary stuff it in...
... I'll second Michelle's point about this is only second handed support for open source at best. I agree that this seems more spiteful than anything. ...
from the Social Media Club Austin mailing list: Blogtoberfest is Coming A new event is coming to the Texas Hill Country. The first annual Blogtoberfest is...
Open Office announcement http://www.openoffice.org/press/ibm_press_release.html Symphony web site http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa ...
Erica O'Grady was at the Social Media Club (which was really interesting, btw - dell folks were there) last night and told me to ask folks to try to sign up...
from the website : The Software Engineering Conference (SEC) is a two day event, which will be held in the Conrad Ballroom #202B at the Hilton Hotel located on...
I'd like to get he OS Posse together early December (Sometime during the first two weeks) I'll send out dates to choose form shortly. Let me know directly if...
facebook is an interesting monoculture. while all the popular third-party apps that i've been invited to can be categorized as spyware (using its formal...
I would like to get a list of open source projects people might be involved in so we can display them for folks to see. Feel free to respond to the list with...
November 2007 Austin OWASP Chapter November 2007 Whole Foods Meeting 550 Bowie Street, Austin, TX 78703 <http://tinylink.com/?chLCAmvxKA> Link to Map...
Hi everyone, As you know, a couple of months ago, we released the updated version of the NOSI Primer, which we produced with the generous support of IBM. We ...
Thatlooked interesting til I saw the price tag. *8^) ~ Jon ... -- Jon Lebkowsky Social Web Associates http://socialwebassociates.com Polycot Associates ...
After the Holiday season I'd like to start having Austin Salons for Creative Commons see http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Salon for what I'm talking about "CC...
Announcement for the Creative Commons Salon ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Creative Commons is a an easy licensing method used by artists, musicians and...
... It's a little unfortunate this is the same time as the Austin Bloggers monthly gathering. http://www.austinbloggers.org/ I think some of the people who go...
hhmmmm. Good point. Frankly I'd like to go to an Austin Blogger meetup. I'll discuss scheduling tonight with those who show up. It seems most tech groups do...
When: February 26th, 2008, 11:30am - 1:00pm Who: Michael Howard, Author of Writing Secure Code MICHAEL HOWARD, PRINCIPAL SECURITY PROGRAM MANAGER, MICROSOFT'S...
It's getting hard to get things scheduled. I have a whole other spouse-driven conflict tonight. Maybe we need to start scheduling meetings after 10pm. ~ Jon On...
... I'll suggest it. Right now the meetings are posted at austinbloggers.org and upcoming.org. ... Always the third Wednesday. That's the national bloggers...