Next Saturday, the 15th of September, we will all celebrate the Software Freedom Day 2012. As usual, it will be a worldwide event with lots of big and small conferences, parties and presentations happening all around the globe and driven by teams of volunteers. Such a day highlights the momentum …
Tomorrow, I’ll be flying with Melissa to our honeymoon somewhere in the Mediterranean. It will be our first and well deserved vacations for over a year now. In this warm and quite busy month of August (my friends at Mandriva will know what I mean), I am reminded of something …
Recently the Mozilla Foundation announced a new orientation for their email client, Thunderbird. It caused quite a bit of discussion, and we, at the Document Foundation, received quite a lot of public and private feedback on this mostly in the form of: “Now that Mozilla is getting rid of Thunderbird, …
Yesterday was a big day. Thank you for everyone who joined us to celebrate our wedding, and to all the kind words we received on the Internet and by mail. We are very, very happy. We will resume our usual programme shortly.
I am busy these days. Not just busy with the Document Foundation and Mandriva, but busy as the Big Day is approaching. A few hints of what’s coming up next week are given below. But first, on to more “casual” news: I was honoured to be interviewed together with Michael …
This article has first been published on the Rootstrikers’s web site; my thanks go to the Rootstrikers team and Lawrence Lessig for that. I hope it will be the beginning of something exciting and a quite different kind of a “Transatlantic Cooperation”. To know more about the Rootstrikers’ Movement and …
I usually avoid to talk much about my day job and what my company is working on, but I will make an exception for this one. Starting today, I will be assisting Mandriva in its Open Source strategy and its relations with the community. Mandriva has had rough times lately, …
