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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Quick Fixes
Free Software, Writing and other Stuff
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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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KDE Promo Activity Report – October 2017
Another week, another KDE Promo report! This edition of the report is special in that we’ve now synchronized the reports
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KDE Promo Activity Report – September 28, 2017
Our second report invites you to keep promoting the Randa2017 fundraiser, lets you know about the progress of the Librem5
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KDE Promo Activity Report – September 5, 2017
In this first report we look at what happened during the 2017 Randa Metings, what was organised for the Qt
Read morePublic Money! Public Code? Campaign Launched
Your taxes are being used to pay for closed source software and this is a terrible idea. Closed source software
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The new and subtle Microsoft
Deep, deep, very deep inside me, I just hope all of this will turn out not to be true. Hopefully
Read moreDo not get excited about Microsoft joining the Linux Foundation
Let’s not get too excited about this. Firstly, Microsoft does not <3 Linux to any degree. Microsoft wants to contain
Read moreLibreOffice 5.0: Faster, Stronger, Better
The Document Foundation released version 5.0 of the LibreOffice suite last week. Usually a whole jump in an application’s version
Read moreSpace Miners in Space
Stephen Cameron, creator of our favourite spaceship bridge simulator, has just added mining to Space Nerds in Space.
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