Suprisingly I didn’t read much about Karmic yet. But that will probably change in a few weeks, when its released. I upgraded my laptop and my desktop to karmic in the last week and I am quite impressed. The look & feel improved and everything is integrated very well. Shiny. The desktop just connects… It [...]

The first report about the NN-Open “Open-IT” congress last week is available on the website of NOiV (Nederland Open in Verbinding). Read it here in Dutch. Read it here translated to English.

NN-Open is currently organizing a congress for policy makers in the (semi)public sector. The congress is at 27 november 2008 in the Martiniplaza in Groningen. The congress is organized in the light of the actionplan “Nederland Open in Verbinding” (The Netherlands Open in Connection) to support the policy makers in adapting open source and open [...]

Before I forget, tomorrow I will give a talk about open source on NITE (Noordelijk IT Event) in Martiniplaza, Groningen. I will be there the whole day at the NN-Open booth, so feel free to hop by.

On the 10th of October we will have an interesting NN-Open borrel: Hans Bos (National Technology Officer) of Microsoft the Netherlands will give a talk about what Microsoft does with open source and such. He is a sort of ambassador of Microsoft in the Netherlands which has to represent and explain the international policy, developments [...]

Yesterday I spoke about “Ubuntu in the office” at the Ubuntu-NL release party. I put the slides online (Dutch), so if someone wants to read back its possible. I had the feeling the party was quite successful. In the workshop area everything seemed quite active and downstairs in the speaker area it was also quite [...]

On the 25th of April, NN-Open will organize an evening dedicated to hybrid networks or better said to virtualization. 18.00-18.35 Peter Bosman (OSSO) will give a talk about the technical backgrounds of virtualization. With extra attention to the possibilities Open Source software provides in this field. 18.35-18.45: Short break. 18.45-19.15: Sytze van der Meer (municipality [...]

On thursday 28 februari 2008 (starting at 17:00) there will be another NN-Open meeting: Official announcement A short summary in English of this event at Herebinnensingel 2, Groningen, The Netherlands. Esther Hoorn of the University of Groningen will talk about Creative Commons. Last year she received the Victorine van Schaickprijs for the rapport Creative Commons [...]

For the Dutchies: Noord-Nederland Open borrel rondom het thema GIS De nachten lengen, koudefronten stormen aan uit het verre noorden. Kortom, het is weer tijd voor een borrel van de vereniging Noord-Nederland Open. Het thema van deze borrel is GIS, ofwel Geografische Informatie Systemen. Dit thema wordt gestalte gegeven door een (vooralsnog) tweetal presentaties: OpenStreetMap [...]

Yesterday Mediaplaza organized an afternoon program about the possibilities of Linux and Open Source software in the educational system. As part of the program I gave an presentation where I introduced Edubuntu and the possibilities it offers. Followed up by a tour/workshop which allowed participants to get a little bit familiar with the Edubuntu GNOME [...]