Linuxparty 2007

Så nærmer Linuxparty 2007 sig med hastige skridt. Mange af aktiviteterne i FOSS-communitiet handler om at hjælpe nybegyndere eller at sælge GNU/Linux til brugere af MS Windows, hvilket er vigtigt, men kan blive lidt kedsommeligt i længden. Linuxparty er en af undtagelserne - her handler det om at “rigtige” Linux-brugere kan hygge sig sammen, arbejde på deres projekter, gå til foredrag og workshops, spise masser af pizza og møde nogle af de mennesker man ellers kun kender fra nettet.

I år er der et meget spændende program. Blandt andet kommer Amarok-udvikleren Nikolaj Hald Nielsen og fortæller om Amarok, Magnatune.com og KDE4. Tidligere Gentoo-udvikler og nuværende Freenode-staffer Bryan “Kloeri” Østergaard holder to foredrag, et om Freenode og et om bugreports. Mikkel Mondrup Kristensen fortæller om hvordan internettet fungerer set indefra NOC’en hos COMX. Flere andre spændende foredrag er allerede programsat og endnu flere spændende foredrag og workshops er stadig under planlægning.

For første gang koster deltagelse i Linuxparty penge - den nette sum af 100,-. Pengene går til udstyr, rengøring og så vidt muligt dækning af foredragsholdernes udgifter til transport o.l. Fremover vil Linuxparty-foreningen holde generalforsamling om fredagen med fremlæggelse af regnskabet, valg af bestyrelse osv. - men i år vil der af gode grunde endnu ikke være noget regnskab at fremlægge. Linuxparty-foreningen er naturligvis non-profit.

Tilmeldingsfristen er senest d. 1/10.

Software Freedom Day, Copenhagen

As it has become tradition SSLUG and our partners DKUUG (who sponsored t-shirts, balloons and helium) and Linuxforum, hit the streets of Copenhagen for the annual international Software Freedom Day yesterday to raise awareness of free software.

We were some 15 people deep and we had plenty fun as we handed out 500+ flyers, 200+ openSUSE promo DVDs, 125 Ubuntu CDs, of course we spoke with many hundred people between us. 600-700 little children received Software Freedom Day balloons which they carried proudly all over town.

It was also nice that representatives of PROSA (trade union for IT-professionals) member magazine came by to take some pictures - it will be nice if they write about the event in the member magazine received by some 13.000 IT-professionals.

A large Danish ISP conveniently and coincidentally provided a nice backdrop for our activity - a huge billboard with the text: “Set your computer free”.

Thanks to everyone who helped planning and carrying out the event - and thanks to the people at softwarefreedomday.org for making it all possible. Thanks to Rolf Larsen for providing the pictures.

New planet.opensource.dk artwork

Some might have already noticed that p.o.d now has a nice logo.

It was contributed by SSLUG member and regular at “the sandbox” SSLUG local group in Roskilde, John Andreasen.

John happens to be an openSUSE user btw.

Just a small example of how good artists make being on the planet a little bit nicer.

Hello world!

It was starting to get a little lonely on the outside of the blogosphere, so here I am.

In case you wonder who I am you can find all you need to know here.

I expect that my blogging will be centered around the nicest entities in the free software universe, such as openSUSE, SSLUG.dk, KDE, Linuxparty.dk and Planet.opensource.dk.

Maybe I’ll blog about other stuff than free software too from time to time, time will tell.

Thanks for reading, see you later.