November 2010

Are Open Source Contributors in Risk of Being Prosecuted for Providing Support of Terrorist Organisations?

Submitted by txwikinger on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 13:36

US Representative (and incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee) Peter King has requested the US State Department to classify Wikileaks as a terrorist organization. While the topic of this article is not a discussion of the merits of this request, which is reported about by cnet ,
nevertheless, this request raises some interesting questions, that should be asked in a broader scope.

Rolling Releases Make no Sense for a Linux Distribution Like Ubuntu

Submitted by txwikinger on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 09:27

Yesterday, rumors started, possibly first in an article found at The Register, that Mark Shuttleworth has stated that Ubuntu would change eventual to rolling releases.

Howto Set Up Drupal Multi-site Configuration with Nginx as Reverse Proxy

Submitted by txwikinger on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 12:36

Drupal multi-site configuration has been very convenient in the past, and has even gotten better in drupal7. However, it requires that the web server from which drupal is served, is called with distinguishable domain names. Most of the time, this is obvious. However, what happens when the Webserver is located behind a firewall, or because of various reasons is accessed via a reverse proxy?

Nginx provides a very flexible way to be used as a reverse proxy. It also can be used to solve the stated problem.

Is Open Source under Siege? Let's Hope Not!

Submitted by txwikinger on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 11:46

While Open Source is stepping up in leading innovation of software technology, things could very well start to get even harder than they are in the near future to gain further market share for true Free Software.

LibreOffice: Document Foundation Steering Committee Public Phone Conference 28-Nov-2010

Submitted by txwikinger on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 09:51

The Document Foundation's steering committee will hold a public phone conference on November 28, 2010, 1500 UTC.


Current agenda items:

  • Structure of the native language websites.
  • Status of the Silverstripe website
  • Community Bylaws status and next step (validation or alternatives)
  • Follow-up on the charter or guidelines with local assocations

Information for dial-in:

AskUbuntu reaches 4000 questions - 9000 answers - 6000 users - 40000 votes

Submitted by txwikinger on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 00:50

6 weeks after the successful launch as permanent Q&A site in our new Ubuntu design, we have reached the 4000 question threshold. Those 4000 questions have been asked and answered to 93% with 9700 answers by 6300 users. 40000 votes have been cast for the questions and answers.

Here some more statistics from askubuntu.com:

# of questions: 4027
# of answers: 9733
# of comments: 14314
# of votes: 40203
# of badges: 9627
# of users: 6331

Libreoffice Beta-3 now available on Debian experimental repositories.

Submitted by txwikinger on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 13:05

Libreoffice Beta-3 is now available from the Debian experimental repositories.

LibreOffice: Document Foundation Steering Committee Public Phone Conference 20-Nov-2010

Submitted by txwikinger on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 09:59

The Document Foundation's steering committee will hold a public phone conference on November 20, 2010, 1300 UTC.

The Agenda has no items yet, committee members are asked to add to the agenda.

Information for dial-in:

LibreOffice: First Goals after Forking

Submitted by txwikinger on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 08:50

According to golem.de, a German IT news magazine, the Document Foundation has announced its first goals for the office suite LibreOffice. The dependency of Java shall be reduced and a general refactoring of all components is in the plans.

The number of developers has risen to over 90, which is far more than OpenOffice had.

Apache Software Foundation vs. Oracle

Submitted by txwikinger on Wed, 11/10/2010 - 16:29

Oracle seem to be on a good path to push out any community participation in any of their open source projects (that have been inherited by the acquisition of SUN).

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