The Booth at Akademy-es/OpenSouthCode
There’s no better measure of success than having a diminutive eight-year-old girl demand to know the name of the painting program she has been using for the last 20 minutes.
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Quick Fixes
Free Software, Writing and other Stuff
Un escandaloso oligopolio del que nadie habla: Lo que pasa con el correo electrónico
A pesar de un protocolo abierto y libre, y una red pública y federada, el correo electrónico se ha convertido en un oligopolio. ¿Correrán la misma suerte Mastodon y el resto del Fediverso?
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Why Mastodon is Better
With the Muskquake leading to a tsunami of users flooding Mastodon, and even mainstream praising the platform as “interesting”, should you too migrate away from Twitter? (TL;DR: Yes. You can carry on with your day now).
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Breaking: Open Source not to Blame in node-ipc Debacle
All the reasons that lay the blame for the node-ipc debacle at the feet of “open source” are, surprise, surprise, bullshit.
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Who’s Important
I am not about to start a flamewar, but how pointless is it we fret about what a couple of YouTubers and their sidekicks have to say about Linux desktops?
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The Three Laws of FLOSS Projects
A relatively easy way to decide what communication activities are appropriate for your Free Software project.
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I’m going to Akademy…
… Which I guess is no surprise, but, yeah, I will be giving two talks this year. In the first,
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Missing the Point, PinePhone KDE Community Edition
If you expect the PinePhone to match up to your current pocket supercomputer/surveillance device, you don’t get it.
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The Baseline
Technical writers are not always required to write exclusively for engineers. Sometimes they also have to write for their bosses, their bosses’ bosses, investors, buyers and end users. These readers may or may not come from technical background. In this article we will look at ways you can ensure your message gets across. (You can also just watch the video).
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Popularity Contests & Data Analysis for the Masses
Use freely available sources of data, add the right tools and a bit of simple analysis and you will be able to figure out whether your Free Software project is being adopted at a healthy rate or not. Bonus track: Find out when to post to social media.
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