Yesterday I attended the CC Licenses Launch as part of the Festival of Creativity and Free Culture. It took place in the Cankarjev Dom (Congress and Cultural Centre) in Ljubljana. And a fine event it was. Some highlights: Classical music and computer electronica performed together in an intrigueing performance. Lawrence Lessig talked about culture. The [...]
Archive | October, 2005
Lawrence Lessig in Slovenia
Lawrence Lessig [Wikipedia] will be speaking Friday and Saturday at the ‘Festival of Creativity and Free Culture’ in Ljubljana organised by Creative Commons Slovenija. The full schedule: English Slovensko If you are in Slovenia and have any interest in Internet copyright issues, or even freedom issues on a broader scale, this would be a good [...]
The Truth About Bird Flu
According to the BBC, the H5N1 virus has arrived in Croatia. Which means it is knocking on Slovenia’s door. Of course, viruses know no borders and this is no exception. But is this strain of the virus, and other ones such as SARS, natural in origin or man-made? Did it jump accidentally, escaping from a [...]
EarthLink Tools For Firefox
At Mozdev Group, we’ve been having a fruitful working relationship with EarthLink. Phase 1 which wrapped early in the Summer was a toobar beta installed globally via XPInstall. Phase 2 which finished a few weeks ago, ported the toolbar to the Extension Manager, added some new features and bug fixes to the toolbar, and included [...]
Mozdev Community Development Intern
At mozdev.org, we are looking for a Community Development Intern. This would be an ideal position for a sudent and/or someone who wants to learn the ropes in a well-established and relatively large Open Source community organisation. More details about the position: http://www.mozdev.org/community/jobs.html
Flock’s Blog Editor
I’m writing this post from Flock’s Blog Editor. I managed to get my hands on a 0.5 developer preview build. It has quite a few rough edges, but there are a few nice features like a flickr bar, a tag based bookmark system, and this blog editor. It still feels very much like Firefox, however. [...]
Firefox/Thunderbird Extension Versioning
Can someone please verify this is correct: 1.0.x builds -> 1.0 Deer Park -> 1.0+ 1.5b1 and 1.5b2 -> 1.4 Latest nightlies (I think) -> 1.5.0 For more info on 1.5 here I come across queries once in a while looking for certain versions, and I want to make sure I’m passing on the right [...]
Articles Needed For Slovene Tech Magazine
Monitor Magazine is one of the leading Tech monthlies here in Slovenia. They have a section called ‘Open scene’ which discusses Free and Open technologies and software. One of the editors has asked me to write an article related to some aspect of Mozilla programming, which I will gladly do. Spreading the word has always [...]
Upcoming ‘Web Hours’ Tech Talks in Ljubljana
Cyberpipe in Ljubljana is organising a series of talks on Open Source topics in October and November. I’ve been asked to give one of the talks and am very happy to be involved. ‘Spletne urice’, meaning ‘Web hours’ is the name given the series, and the talks are aimed mainly at developers, designers and admins [...]
Whatever Happened to the Open Directory?
Well nothing really, it is still there at dmoz.org. However, Phil Craven over at webworkshop has written a piece entitled ‘DMOZ in 2005‘. Towards the end … It was a fine concept, and it looked promising for a while, but the idea of DMOZ becoming the definitive catalog of the Web is gone. Improvements in [...]
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