Welcome to this Early Spring edition of the Eyes & Ears sessions, after a full month of silence. Let’s start right away with some nice house music remix by Lane 8 , who’s been featured some time ago in our sessions. This one is a track by Icarus. Ibiza Sonica …
There’s a meme that is almost as old as Free and Open Source Software itself: FOSS is not credible enough for corporate use. Of course, people spreading that meme do not deal with the cognitive dissonance brought in by the likes of Red Hat, Google, Suse or Canonical very well. …
This is going to be a rather opinionated post about a subject matter that I’ve taken a lot of interest in as it concerns me directly, on a personal basis. I realize that what I’m about to write may put me at odds with several friends . At the very …
The past few months I read here and there around the LibreOffice community complaints about our wiki. According to these sources, our wiki is unusable, chaotic and poorly maintained. As we have a full time team dedicated to infrastructure management I am pretty sure that last criticism is unjustified to …
Welcome to this month’s Eyes and Ears session! Today we’ll be listening to some very nice chill out and electro tracks but we’ll also travel in the world of the folk and cabaret songs. First, this is one of the latest mixes by Shingo Nakamura for the Silk Music label …
This past week we had had the pleasure to welcome both our new marketing assistant and the new board of directors of the Document Foundation. I would like to say a few words on where the Document Foundation stands now – and I must stress that I’m confident the new …
I’m just back from FOSDEM and I just realized I had this session pretty much ready, even though it had not been published yet. Let’s just call it the “Back from FOSDEM” session of Eyes & Ears… I have several good mixes today. Let’s start with this Silk Music mix …
It has been some time I have not shared some news about my increasing use of Emacs. This post will be just about that. Let me quickly summarize what I do with Emacs on a daily basis: email (mu4e) note taking (org-mode) blogging (org-mode, markdown, html) project management (org-mode) IRC …
As the first post of 2016 on this blog I was wondering what I would be writing about. Not that I am lacking ideas but I was tinkering with a post about those never-happening new year resolutions. I ended up dropping this idea in favor of a question that is …