Ubuntu Karmic
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 also seems Ubuntu is slowly extending to the web with Ubuntu One. It seems quite cool. If you don't mind storing your documents at a 3rd party, it does give you a lot easiness with exchanging files between computers or with friends. It is obviously beta, but the core functionality seem to work well (synchronizing files) and it looks good.
KVM (virtualisation) integration also seems very promising, I will test that later.
A very karmic koala
picture from here
Report NN-Open “Open-IT” congress
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.
Congres Open ICT voor beleidsmakers
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 standards. One of the sponsors in NOiV which is responsible for "making it happen".
Since the congress is next week, most things are already taken care of and it looks like it will be a big success.
If your interested sign up at: http://congres.nn-open.nl/
I will be there too, so if you go, say hi. 
Talk about open source @ NITE
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.
NN-Open Borrel – 10 October, Groningen
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 and vision of Microsoft. Likewise he also reports back about developments in the Netherlands. His talk will be followed up by discussion time.
Will be very interesting if you ask me! 
All be invited. Full announcement in Dutch is available on the NN-Open website.
Sorry for the late annoucement on my blog. If you want to stay informed about NN-Open events better subscribe to the mailinglist at the nn-open.nl website.
Ubuntu-NL release party last Saturday
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 lively. Combined with a pretty good atmosphere I think everyone can look back as time well spend.
In any case: Thanks to Matthijs and the others who organized the event, well done!
ps. Is there any official visitor count? Pictures online somewhere?
NN-Open: Hybridization (Virtualization)
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 of Leeuwarden) will talk about the virtualization experiences of the municipality of Leeuwarden.
Since this is very close to the release of hardy I am thinking about giving a small demo/talk about virtualization in Ubuntu as well. Since I only use virtualization on the server side (Xen) I am all open for input to show off virtualization in an Ubuntu desktop.
Besides that, all are invited as far as I'm concerned, the event is located in Herebinnesingel 2, Groningen, The Netherlands.
NN-Open: Creative Commons, GPLv3 & Opensource yearbook
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 Licenses for cultural heritage institutions.
- Mathieu Paapst will discuss the new GPL license and more!
- Hans Sleurink will present the new edition of the open source jaarboek (yearbook), which covers "actieplan Heemskerk", the situation in the educational world, ISO procedures of open standards and the need to take the next step in the Netherlands in regard to open source.
Besides this there is much more to discuss and we hope to see those of you who are in Groningen or relatively close to it at that moment join in.
NN-Open borrel: GIS
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 door Henk Hoff. Het OpenStreetMap project maakt vrije geografische data zoals plattegronden beschikbaar voor iedereen. Het project is opgestart om een alternatief te bieden voor dure commerciële kaarten met restrictieve licenties.
- het Flamingo project door Ron Wardenier. Flamingo is een in Noord-Nederland ontwikkeld project bestaande uit Flamingo MapComponents, een set bouwstenen voor GIS applicaties voor het internet en Flamingo mapviewer.
De lokatie is wederom het hoofdkwartier van Wyldebeast & Wunderliebe, Herebinnesingel 2. Komt allen!
More info at the NN-Open website
Edubuntu presentation
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 environment.
I uploaded the presentation at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DutchTeamPresentations. Thanks to another presentation on this page I was also able to use a decent template instead of wasting time on making one which would look worse.
I didn't have time to follow edubuntu development for the last two releases but I was quite impressed with the LTSP improvements when I dived in a little in preparation of the presentation. Good work!
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- Gisteren the men who stare at goats gezien. :-) jeff bridges++
- @Ronald_R: Anders heb je nog Zombie Strippers! als optie.
- @Ronald_R Lesbian Vampire Killers... http://www.pajiba.com/trailers/new-lesbian-vampire-killers-trailer.php
- @joostdrijver stink voetbal, mijn reistijd naar kantoor verdubbeld in de laatste 500m.
- wie wil er vanavond "the men who stare at goats" met mij kijken? :P
- Rabobank internetbankieren is buggy as hell.
- Net film the fountain gezien. Wel mooi gemaakt maar niet mijn ding.
- Groningen binnen. Niet bijzonder. Nu coma tijd.
- Wat een kak verhaal van rouvoet. Ook met 4 procent geteld, lame.
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