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Eyes & Ears Fall 2015 Edition

Welcome to the Fall 2015 edition of Eyes & Ears! This month we have the latest release of Melorman, and some exciting trance tracks. Melorman is an artist from Greecewe’ve been following for over a year now and he just released his latest album, “Out in the Field”. We share …

Affectio Societatis

I have been meaning to write this post since this Summer, and since we will have a session at the Paris Open Source Summit in November about this topic, I thought now is the right time to discuss it here. There is a mystery of sorts about the reasons people have …

Thinking has its own diseases

It is a vast topic for this blog, but after a long conversation on Twitter I felt compelled to write a bit about this matter. While it may allude to politics, this post is not about politics, it is about philosophy and how one defines truth. A regular reader of this …

The art of shaving

The topic of the blog is unusual, but I am writing it by popular demand. It isn’t about software freedom, it isn’t about open standards, cloud computing, software patents or anything of the sort. Today, I will tell you about my experience with… (drumroll) traditional wet shaving. If you’ve read …

Eyes & Ears – September Session

Welcome to the Eyes ans Ears’s September 2015 session! This month we’ll dive deep into ambient and electro tracks. Let’s start with what some would call a classic by an artist who’s already been on the Eyes and Ears sessions, Melorman. His track “Away” is actually several years old but …

Drawing with LibreOffice

There are only very few software packages that can claim to be as feature-packed as LibreOffice. The thing is, sometimes it is even possible to forget about everything you can do with it. I’m not necessarily talking about the avalanche of features and improvements you can see listed on our …

Open Source’s money issue

I tend to write a lot about how Free and Open Source Software projects rely on a community of contributors to grow and expand, and how projects without a healthy community tend to face problems and in some cases disappear. Today, I would like to discuss a sad reality of …

A word to the Wise…

I have been recently reminded that while it may be hard enough to discuss the role and importance of communities for Free and Open Source Software, it is equally important to understand the complexities and the challenges that a Free and Open Source Software foundation has to meet. It may …

Eyes & Ears – August edition

Welcome to this month’s Eyes and Ears session! Today we have a collection of books to start with as well as a beautiful mix from Steve Jones and Sally Rodgers, better known as A Man Called Adam. We will also be exploring fine remixes and tunes from some of Eyes …

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