Announcements
One of our previous book competition winners, Andrew Loch of Queensland, Australia, has sent us his thanks and a photo of himself with his prize in front of a building at The University of Queensland (UQ).
Andrew won a copy of Write Great Code by Randall Hyde.
Thanks to all those who entered, unfortunately there can only be one winner...
Congratulations Maurizio De Cecco of Paris, France!
Thanks to Maurizio's comment on our article on Wengophone he has won a copy of Learning Perl by Randal L Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy.
Thanks to all who commented this week.
This week we are giving away a copy of PHP 5 Power Programming by Stig Bakken, Andi Gutmans, Derick Rethans.
All you need to do to enter is:
1) Read our terms and conditions.
2) Post a comment on ANY article or blog entry. We will choose the best comment made during the week and the author of that comment will be this week's winner.
Entries open on the 26th of June 2006 and close on the 1st of July 2006.
Summer has come. The crops in the fields are beginning to fill, the barbecues on the park are smoking away and, this being the UK, either the clouds in the sky are starting to thunder or the utility companies are announcing water shortages or both. Despite all this though, the free software flowers in the virtual garden are blooming like never before. Once again, I have limited my writings on the free software oriented events that have attracted my personal attention and fired my personal interests. During the past month, these consist of...
Welcome to the August 2006 edition of the Free Culture Events Newsletter - A joint project of Free Culture UK and iCommons. Free Culture is a movement that extends the logic of free software into the world of art, advocating free creativity, sharing and appropriation. 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.
Documentation is a vital part of any application, proprietary or free software, as it is often the first way to communicate with users about the application or software and how it should be used. I also think it tends to be one of the areas most taken for granted; most users expect it to be there and often forget just how much effort goes into producing it.
Many users also complain about the documentation itself. Often this is because it’s been written by programmers and, as a rule, they really aren’t that great at writing documentation that is particularly human readable.
This week saw the introduction of our new contest—the "Comment of the Week Competition". It's been a shaky start with very few entries and we would like to see that improve over the coming weeks. We hope, through the use of things like this competition, to help increase Free Software Magazine's community participation. Well enough with the formalities. Thanks to all who entered... and the winner is...
Congratulations Robert Romberger of Apple Valley, California in the USA!
Do you need another reason today to love GNU?
This week we are giving away a copy of Unix to Linux Porting by Alfredo Mendoza et. al.
All you need to do to enter is:
1) Read our terms and conditions.
2) Post a comment on any article or blog entry. We will choose the best comment made during the week, and the author of that comment will be the winner of this week's competition.
Entries open on the 12th of June 2006 and close on the 17th of June 2006.
GOOD LUCK!
One of our previous book competition winners, Lopo Lencastre de Almeida of Portugal, has sent us his thanks and a photo of him with his prize.
Lopo won a copy of Free Software for Busy People.
This week we are giving away a copy of Learning Perl by Randal L Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy.
All you need to do to enter is:
1) Read our terms and conditions.
2) Post a comment on any article or blog entry. We will choose the best comment made during the week, and the author of that comment will be the winner of this week's competition.
Entries open on the 19th of June 2006 and close on the 24th of June 2006.
GOOD LUCK!
Thanks to all those who entered, unfortunately there can only be one winner...
Congratulations Manuel Rodriguez of Malaga, Spain!
Manuel has won a copy of User Mode Linux by Jeff Dike.
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 Linux Patch Management by Michael Jang.
All you need to do to enter is:
1) Read our terms and conditions.
2) Answer this question:
What is the topic of our latest newsletter? (Hint: F--- C------)
3) Send your FSM subscriber name (the name you use to login), your full name and your answer to
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This blog entry is to inform you about two great pieces of news about Free Software Magazine, which involve our web site and our blog section.
First things first: we have just finished updating our web site so that it runs the latest version of Drupal. I must admit that I was waiting for the version 4.7.1 of our web site to do this: I never trust version ".0" of anything!
Thanks to all those who entered, unfortunately there can only be one winner...
Congratulations Andrew Loch of Queensland, Australia!
Andrew has won a copy of Write Great Code by Randall Hyde.
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 User Mode Linux by Jeff Dike.
All you need to do to enter is:
1) Read our terms and conditions.
2) Answer this question:
What is the topic of the latest newsletter? (Clue: M----W---)
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, Marc Mayfield of Ohio in the USA, has sent us his thanks and a photo of him with his prize.
Marc won a copy of The Business and Economics of Linux and Open Source.
Congratulations Marc from all of us here at FSM.
Thanks again to Prentice Hall for providing this great prize.
Thanks to everyone who entered, unfortunately there can only be one winner...
Congratulations Lopo Lencastre de Almeida of Portugal!
Lopo has won a copy of Free Software for Busy People by Mohammad Al-Ubaydli.
Thanks to all who entered.
Thanks also go to the author Mohammad Al-Ubaydli for providing this great prize.
Welcome to the June edition of the Free Culture events newsletter. 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.
Remix Reading open media lab
May and June have always been my favorite months. The arrival of the wild flowers on the roadside and the warmer sunshine ensure the assignment of the last thaws of winter into history, also the earlier arrival of the sun in the morning, together with its later retirement, grant eager anticipation to the long lazy summer afternoons to come. Not so lazy, though, has been the work of the free software community, from which I have chosen a minuscule sample to report in this current issue of this newsletter. This sample, whose only attribute for inclusion here are that they grabbed my attention, consist of:
