Since a month NN-Open (Noord Nederland Open) is officially registered as an association. In short NN-Open tries to stimulate/encourage/possitively influence the use of open standards, open source sofware and open content in the region (Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe). This friday NN-Open organizes its first borrel since NN-Open was officially founded. Quote from the website: NN-Open borrel [...]

The topic comes up regularly and since I just installed gutsy on my old laptop (which went pretty smooth) I’m in the mood to add something to it. I will only point out the most important thing else it will be more like writing a book instead of a blog entry. I will focus on [...]

Something for the dutchies: Er was eens een bedrijf, Mooie Schijn, dat in het land Nachtland een prachtige fitting en gloeilamp voor een bureaulamp had bedacht. Mooie Schijn wist deze lampen zo slim te verkopen dat iedereen ze ging gebruiken. De fitting en de gloeilamp van Mooie Schijn zijn natuurlijk gepatenteerd, want anders zou iedereen [...]

NN-Open is an newly formed association which wants to stimulate awareness and usage of open standards, open source and open content in the north of the Netherlands. This Wednessday there will be a drink and several presentations about a pilot project at the municipality of Haren. The pilot project is a Linux desktop with integration [...]

Next week there will be a political debate about openness, open standards and usage/advantages of opensource. Several political parties will be represented. Its has a local aim (this region) partly because of the next provincial elections. Anyway I think its important if you are involved with open source software or open standards for that matter. [...]

Last week I got my first look on Windows Vista. I guess they outdid themselves on making something horrible. The interface is freaking slow, lots of popups too. It looks much more like the Mac now btw, just in a more failed way. I sure hope Ubuntu doesn’t pursue something like Vista else you’ll find [...]

Today Mark Rutte hopped by our shared office building (for the non-dutchies: he was one of the running candidates last election (and they lost big time). Friendly guy btw. Although the time I was able to speak with him was really short I was able to express the importance of open source software. He also [...]

For at least half a year now I regularly meet en talk to people to see what can be done to solve the current obstacles which prevent adoption of open source software in schools. There was some initiative to get some regional educational organisations together to demand Linux versions of commonly used software from the [...]

Ubuntu Dapper Release Party Last friday at Wyldebeast & Wunderliebe, a succes. Kim Chee decorated the place with some artwork and installed a demo setup with several thin clients. To make it more then just drinking I held a talk as “our local ubuntu guru”. In the talk I highlighted some features and other coolness [...]

June 23th @ 1700 – Release party at Wyldebeast & Wunderliebe, Grand Café in “Van Elmpthuys” (Herebinnensingel 2). Please announce yourself: info _at_ w20e.com What else I need to say? A bit late? Don’t forget to send an e-mail if your coming. Free beer.