On Thursday the Document Foundation released its newest stable branch, LibreOffice 4,2. Don’t let be misled by its number; if we weren’t on a strict time released scheduled alongside a clear number scheme without any nickname for each release, I would have called this one the 5,0. Yes, you read …
I recently discovered an electronic music band that has already quite a history, Isan. I thought only bands like Axiotronic and StarGarden were doing these kind of sounds, but apparently I was wrong. One thing led to another, and I spotted this cool experiment made with a Kinect, special effects …
Sometimes I post videos of tracks I like on this blog, but I’ve decided not just to make it something more regular, but a more complete books and tracks listing as well. Without much further ado, welcome to the Eyes and Ears section, November 2013. Tracks Madeon – The City …
… and so does pesky market research. The IT bubble has been spreading the word about this Forrester report and as you can imagine it got many of us wondering what it really means. Well it got me wondered about a few things too, but perhaps not for the same …
The title of this post may sound rather belligerant, but it is for a reason. Ever since this Summer -longer in fact- I ended having several conversations with people from the FSF, OSI, April and FSFE (as well as other orgs). Something is becoming increasingly obvious: FOSS has come of …
As days grow short in this northen hemisphere and Fall extends its red and yellow hand over trees washed by ever colder rains, I thought we all needed a few reminders of the Summer. And what’s better to help us than some Balearic music sessions? One of the Sol Sessions …
During the last OpenWorld Forum in Paris there were a lot of panel discussions and talks, private and public about the trends in Free and Open Source Software. I was part of a panel about FOSS communities growth and development and there was in the room next to us a …
This is just short post as I’m currently swamped by many different tasks here and there. I don’t always post something at the occasion of each new 9/11. Today, after the world has started to realize the growingly pervasive surveillance that our societies seem to tolerate (and not necessarily coming …
Here are few tracks for this Summer season before I leave for vacations. Some rediscovery of Laurent Garnier who’s one of the best DJs in the world, even after having been in and out the charts for about 20 years now; some classic track for the Sonar 2013 Festival; last …