Announcements
This week we are giving away a copy of Write Great Code by Randall Hyde.
All you need to do to enter is:
1) Read our terms and conditions.
2) Send your FSM subscriber name (the name you use to login) and your full name to
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Entries open on the 17th of May 2006 and close on the 22nd of May 2006.
Thanks to all those who entered, unfortunately there can only be one winner...
Congratulations Marc Mayfield of Ohio in the USA!
Marc has won a copy of The Business and Economics of Linux and OpenSource by Martin Fink.
Thanks to all who entered.
Thanks also go to Prentice Hall for providing this great prize.
This week we are giving away a copy of Free Software for Busy People by Mohammad Al-Ubaydli.
All you need to do to enter is:
1) Read our terms and conditions.
2) Send your FSM subscriber name (the name you use to login) and your full name to
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It is hard not to consider the effect that has been had on the way we share information since the widespread adoption of the internet. There are many solutions for publishing and providing data, including some that I have covered before in this series of hosting service free software.
One of our previous book competition winners, Wayne Moore of London in the UK, has sent us some feedback:
Thank you very much, I received my prize/book yesterday and have already put it to good use. :-)
And he's sent us a photo too.
Wayne won a copy of Running Linux 5th Ed..
Congratulations Wayne from all of us here at FSM.
One of our previous book competition winners, Jeff Mills of Seattle, in the USA, has sent us his thanks and a photo:
Jeff won a copy of Linux Made Easy.
Congratulations Jeff from all of us here at FSM, we hope you enjoy your prize.
Thanks also go to No Starch Press for providing this great prize.
This week we are giving away a copy of The Business and Economics of Linux and Open Source by Martin Fink.
All you need to do to enter is:
1) Read our terms and conditions.
2) Send your FSM subscriber name (the name you use to login), and your full name to
.
Entries open on the 1st of May 2006 and close on the 6th of May 2006.
GOOD LUCK!
Thanks to all those who entered, unfortunately there can only be one winner...
Congratulations Ben Stoutenburgh of Poughkeepsie, NY in the USA!
Ben has won a copy of Pro Apache Ant.
Thanks to all who entered.
Thanks also go to Apress for providing this great prize.
This week we are giving away a copy of Wicked Cool Perl Scripts by Steve Oualline.
All you need to do to enter is:
1) Read our terms and conditions.
2) Send your FSM subscriber name (the name you use to login), and your full name to
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Entries open on the 24th of April 2006 and close on the 29th of April 2006.
GOOD LUCK!
One of our previous book competition winners, Julian Yap of Hawaii, in the USA, has sent us some feedback:
Thanks! Keep up the great work with the magazine.
Here's a photo of Julian with his prize.
Julian won a copy of Zope 3 Developer’s Handbook.
Congratulations Julian from all of us here at FSM.
Welcome to the third newsletter listing and reviewing free culture events around the world. Free culture is a movement that extends the logic of free software into the world of art, advocating free creativity, sharing and remixing. There will be thousands of events with this ethos going on around the world, but the listings below are brought to you by activists and advocates of the free culture movement. You can add your events and reviews to this newsletter on the Free Culture UK newsletter wiki.
The showers of April have died away. As spring matures, the song birds greet the mornings of May with their music and I find that it is once again time to hand in my report on events regarding free software. This consists of the usual conglomeration of occurrences that I have noticed, think important, or which simply take my fancy.
For this last month, these consist of:
The entries just keep growing in number and this week was no exception, unfortunately there can only be one winner...
Congratulations Jeffrey Mills of Seattle, Washington, in the USA!
Mike has won a copy of Linux Made Easy.
Thanks to all who entered.
Thanks also go to No Starch Press for providing this great prize.
This week we are giving away a copy of Pro Apache Ant by Matthew Moodie.
All you need to do to enter is:
1) Read our terms and conditions.
2) Answer this question:
What CMS is our new system based on? (Hint: read the editorial for issue 11.)
3) Send your FSM subscriber name (the name you use to login), your full name and your answer to
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One of our previous book competition winners, Nelson Mambre of Venezuela has sent us his appreciation and a photo of himself and his prize.
Nelson won a copy of Hardening Apache.
Congratulations from all of us here at FSM.
Thanks also go to Apress for providing this great prize.
The entries just keep growing in number and this week was no exception, unfortunately there can only be one winner...
Congratulations Mike Calloway of Madison, Alabama, USA!
Mike has won a copy of The Debian System.
Thanks to all who entered.
Thanks also go to No Starch Press for providing this great prize.
There were lots of entries this week, but unfortunately there can only be one winner...
Congratulations Jim Coleman of Parkersburg, WV, USA!
Jim has won a copy of The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick.
Thanks to all who entered.
Thanks also go to Apress for providing this great prize.
This week we are giving away a copy of Linux Made Easy: the Official Guide to Xandros 3 for Everyday Users by Rickford Grant.
All you need to do to enter is:
1) Read our terms and conditions
2) Send your FSM subscriber name (the email address you use to login) and full name to
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(There is no question to be answered for this week's competition.)
Entries open on the 27th of MArch 2006 and close on the 1st of April 2006.
This week we are giving away a copy of The Debian System by Martin F. Krafft.
All you need to do to enter is:
1) Read our terms and conditions
2) Send your FSM subscriber name (the email address you use to login) and full name to
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No answer is required for this week's competition.
Entries open on the 20th of March 2006 and close on the 26th of March 2006.
GOOD LUCK!
This week we are giving away a copy of The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick by Michael Still.
All you need to do to enter is:
1) Read our terms and conditions
2) Answer this question honestly, there is no correct answer:
If we printed a paper version of FSM and sold it at $6/issue on newsstands or $35 for a 12 month subscription, would you buy it?
3) Send your FSM subscriber name (the email address you use to login), full name and your answer to
