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 [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday I went to LinuxWorld, Utrecht. Me, Nils, Peter and Kim drove to Utrecht from Groningen. It started really bad, and I think in general it was quite crappy, especially because of the overpowered sales army. Open source innovation, community and just cool stuff were hard to find. The seminar about Desktop Linux started really [...]

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 [...]

Peter is working on assignment for our college where he has to write a memo recorder with gstreamer 0.10, sounds great! Our college ignored the existance of Linux for a long while. Now they started to give some Linux based courses. They even give instructions for Ubuntu! But wait… those instructions… “you sure its from [...]