There are lotsa quotes of stuff i said in this Computer World story by Stephen Bell :
"Wellington's Brenda Wallace cruises to victory in predictions contest"
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/technology/android-boosted-ipad-dism...

Well-known Wellington geek Brenda Wallace cruised to victory for the second year running, in developer group Unlimited Potential’s contest for the best predictions for ICT in the year ahead.

A growing number of organisations, especially government agencies, will choose open-source software during 2010, for the wrong reasons, Wallace predicts. Referring to the Public Sector Remix open-source desktop trial, she says, “I suspect they’re doing it because Microsoft wouldn’t give them the price they wanted. I hope they’ll stay open-source, because it gives them freedom and control and breaks a monopoly.”

Libraries will begin renting e-books, she says. More tablet computers will enter the market, running “quasi-operating systems” such as Google’s Android rather than full-blown Linux, Apple or Windows; “but users won’t know or care about the OS; they’ll just use [the devices].”

The move to open government “will get creepy”, Wallace says, observers will “stalk” politicians, reporting their movements through Twitter and other real-time forums. “I’d like to see them do it to the lobbyists,” she says; “I’d like to know who they’re having lunch with.”

Why you should go to LCA, by Selena Deckleman
http://www.chesnok.com/daily/2010/01/27/why-you-should-go-to-lca-2011/

LWN articles (subscription required while the stories are new)
An LCA 2010 overview http://lwn.net/Articles/371044/
LCA: Static analysis with GCC plugins http://lwn.net/Articles/370717/
LCA: Cooperative management of package copyright and licensing data http://lwn.net/Articles/370308/
LCA: How to destroy your community http://lwn.net/Articles/370157/

Another brilliant LCA! by Tridge http://blog.tridgell.net/?p=21

Computer World NZ http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/devt/376AB6C5B174B722CC2576B2007B7F93

75% of Linux code is written by paid devs http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17365/1/

Smarter Linux file structure aims to ease software management http://www.techworld.com.au/article/333549/smarter_linux_file_structure_...

Make Meeting Times Inconvenient To Get Better Results http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2010/01/make-meeting-times-inconvenient-to-...

That rather counter-intuitive suggestion came from Leslie Hawthorn, a program manager at Google. during a presentation at linux.conf.au on how to get involved with open source software

Illuminating the elephant in the open source room http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2010/012110-illuminating-the-elephant-in-...

I've been hacking code for Laconica (the open source software that powers http://identi.ca, http://mozilli.ca and more).

A new stable release is about to happen - 0.8.1 (any day now).

Included is my utf hashtag patch. This allows #hashtags like #Māori or #Gelöbnix #рогатку #日本 etc.

The utf8 also ends up in your browser address bar, so you get urls like this:
http://identi.ca/tag/어이

Some folks say strange things like "how will anyone type that!". Well, not everyone has your keyboard. Some folks have keyboards like this:

a better question is how do folks with that keyboard type 어이.kr? Why are "we" making people in korea type roman characters? It's not part of their language.

Bring on Generic top level domains names, so we see domains like 你好.中国. Don't get hung up on how westerners will type these.

I've pondered for some days writing a post being an woman working with and contributing to open source software for the Down under feminists carnival - such a post would include how awesome it is to work in this great field.

Such a blog post would also include the seriously negative sexist incidents that happen from time to time. Especially the high profile ones. (They're not the norm, and they happen infrequently)

In the past when I've reported on such negative incidents on my blog (3 times) I've received email telling me to stop pointing it out. Usually it's from open source project leaders and people I do respect in the open source community. The form of the email is usually a very very long essay explaining that describing what has happened to me or my friends at a conference is going to damage the community, the project, and is going to drive women away from the field. Please be quiet.

They ask me why I want to do such a horrible thing to open source as to blog about the things that happen. Very clearly I'm part of the problem by reporting it. Often they'll throw in something about me not understanding how open source culture works.

So on that note, I'm not going to write the post after all - I don't have the energy.

Instead I encourage you to check out the Geek feminism wiki

=== linux.conf.au Call For Papers ===

linux.conf.au ( http://www.lca2010.org.nz ) is pleased to announce the
opening of its Call for Papers for the coming linux.conf.au, LCA2010!

LCA2010 will be held from Monday 18 January 2010 to Saturday 23 January
2010 in Wellington, New Zealand.

linux.conf.au isn't just a Linux conference. It is a technical
conference about Free and Open Source Software, held annually in
Australasia since 2001 - covering everything from the Linux Kernel and
the BSDs to OpenOffice.org, from networking to audio-visual magic, from
hardware hacks to Creative Commons.

=== Important Dates ===

Call for Papers opens: Monday 29 June 2009
Call for Papers closes: Friday 24 July 2009
Email Notifications from Papers Committee: Early September 2009
Registrations open: Mid September 2009
Conference Dates: Monday 18 January to Saturday 23 January 2010

=== Information on Papers ===

The LCA2010 Papers Committee is looking for a broad range of papers
spanning everything from programming and software to desktop and
userspace to community, government and education but there is one
essential:

The core of your paper must relate to open source in some way,
i.e., if it's a paper about software then the software has to
be licensed under an Open Source license.

The LCA2010 Papers Committee welcome proposals for Papers on the
following topics:
* Kernel and system topics such as filesystems and embedded devices
* Networking topics such as peer to peer networking, or tuning a
TCP/IP stack

There are some things i reckon are the minimum infomation a Free & Open Source Software project should have clearly on or one link away from the front page of the project website

1) What the product does
2) What licence is is released under
3) A Download link for the stable version
4) A link to find the source/version control
5) How to contribute

So, i did a quick Survey of some projects that are popular with New Zealanders:

Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 2:56 pm
Press Release: LinuxChix NZ

New Zealand Linux Industry and Community reject guilt on accusation copyright laws Press release by LinuxChix NZ, Waikato Linux Users' Group and Wellington Linux Users' Group 11-March-2009

A new threat has emerged against Linux and other Open Source Software: New Zealand's new, ill-conceived copyright laws that pave the way for users to be disconnected on accusation of copyright infringement.

Copyright threats against Linux are nothing new. In 2003 The SCO Group, a commercial entity from the USA, falsely claimed copyright on parts of the Linux operating system. It took a long time, over four years for these claims to be declared as false by the courts and thrown out. Even though SCO Group's copyright claims were found baseless, the drawn-out legal process was prohibitively expensive and held the potential to severely damage the future of Linux.

Many New Zealand businesses and community groups fear the threat of false copyright accusations against Linux could result in internet disconnection and website takedowns without due process. There is no requirement under the new law to prove the accusations, nor are there any sanctions against those who make false ones.

Already, the country's third largest ISP, TelstraClear, has stated it will take down sites accused of hosting copyright infringing material without investigation or verification of the claims.

New Zealand Linux Industry and Community reject guilt on accusation copyright laws | linuxchix.org.nSource: linuxchix.org.nzA new threat has emerged against Linux and other Open Source Software: New Zealand's new, ill-conceived copyright laws that pave the way for users to be disconnected on accusation of copyright infringement.

I'm in the finals for a Wellingtonisa Award, for Best Contribution by a Wellingtonian to the Internet

If there is something going on in Wellington that involves Linux, Drupal, open-source software, geek women or beer, you can bet that Brenda will be involved in it. As one of the driving forces behind the Girl Geek Dinners, she’s actively working to increase women working in technology. With her championing of open source, she’s building the knowledge base in the world, and with her constant Tweets, she’s keeping Wellington entertained – although we have no idea how she manages to do so much at once

All you need to do is go down to question 15 and VOTE

The New Zealand open source awards are tomorrow night - I wanted to ask what your picks are for winners? The finalists are listed on the NZOSA website

Open Source Contributor
This is a really hard one, as there are massive contributions by all four contributors. My pick is Francois Marier, due to the huge number of contributions as a debian package maintainer for over 50+ packages.

Open Source Software Project

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to be held this year on Saturday 20th September, 2008. This year SFD is to be held at the Wellington Convention Centre in Wellington from 12pm - 6pm. There will be free wifi, coffee all day at the venue, and pizza and beer as things wrap up at 6pm.

Wellington really is the place to be for Open Source.. Andy thinks so, and so do I.. OhLoh shows twice as many opensource hackers in Wellington than in Auckland.

Wellington is fast proving itself to be the home of New Zealand's open source software movement with two major collaborative software events scheduled for the capital within days.

First up, on Saturday September 20, is Software Freedom Day '08, part of an international celebration of open source software that will gather together more than 150 software enthusiasts including programmers, website development teams and open source advocates.

read more

http://www.softwarefreedomday.org.nz/

Register for our hack fest -- so we know how many beers etc to find :-)

Come along and work on whatever you like, discuss what you're
building, and learn about free software projects that the Wellington
community contributes to.

You will need to bring your own laptop.

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open
Source Software (FOSS) to be held this year on 20th September 2008.

What is software freedom day?

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to be held this year on 20th September 2008. Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere!

Released under GPL.

available @ http://drupal.org/project/moodlesso

This module is not ready for real use
We're waiting on a patch to moodle 1.8 to allow delegation of logout urls.

watch this space.

What is moode?
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.

Here's a copy of my 7 days of fame on stuff.co.nz

Linux conference blog

Friday, 19 January 2007

This week Sydney is hosting the largest free and open source software
conference in the Southern Hemisphere. Linux.conf.au (LCA07) is an
influential gathering of over 800 interested users and software
developers.