Category Archives: Linux.com
Blogging 101: Take a Tip from Newswriting with the Five W's
Who? When? Why? What? Where? How? If you don't answer those questions, why bother blogging at all?
The "Five W's" as they're often called (and one H) are drilled into every journalism student as crucial for news-writing. Who is involved? When did it happen? Where did it happen? How and why did it happen? And, for [...]
Also posted in Blogging 101, Front Page, Journalism, Open Source, PR and marketing, Writing, openSUSE Tagged blogging, marketing, pr, Social Media 1 Comment
Raising Money for Open Source Projects: How Can We Improve?
One of the things I admire about the FLOSS community is the willingness to dig in and tackle problems facing a project, whether they're technical, structural (hosting, etc.), governance, licensing, and so on. But it would occasionally be a better idea to try to recruit expertise from the outside than to try to re-invent the [...]
Also posted in Articles, Linux, Open Source, PR and marketing, openSUSE Tagged fundraising, GNOME, sfc, sflc Leave a comment
KDE 4.4 Kreeps Kloser to Komplete
The KDE team is getting very close to a final release of KDE 4.4. The second release candidate came out yesterday as a testing platform for users and developers to find and squash bugs before the final release date of February 9th.
The 4.4 release brings quite a few changes over 4.3, new applications, enhancements, and [...]
Legal silliness: Blocking banned countries
Some days it seems nothing is simple, even providing open access to open source software. There's a bit of a kerfuffle brewing over SourceForge blocking "banned locations" from downloading software.
The long and short of it seems to be that SourceForge is filtering access to downloads. Requests from Syria, Sudan, Iran, North Korea and Cuba are [...]
Also posted in Legal, Linux, Open Source, Politics Tagged export, Legal, sourceforge Leave a comment
So long and thanks for all the Geekos!
January 31st will be my last day with Novell. I've given it a great deal of thought, and decided that it's time to move on.
With the openSUSE Conference wrapped up, 11.2 launched, the major projects I've been working on are completed and I feel like this is a good parting point. It wasn't an easy [...]
Signing and encrypting email: Do you?
Conducting a little experiment. I'm wondering how many people actually sign and/or encrypt their email.
I'm interested in finding out how many people actually use encryption and GPG signatures to protect email, and how that breaks down between developers and non-developers. If you want to explain why you do or don't use encryption, please leave a [...]
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