One of the questions I get asked a lot is the "KDE vs GNOME" question. My first reaction is "that's not the issue," – the message I want to send the world is not why GNOME is better than KDE. That would be constraining our message to people that already know and use open source […]
Netbooks are very small, lightweight, cheap laptops. For $350-600 you get a mini-laptop, perfect for surfing the web or writing a quick document. Many of them, as I've pointed out in previous posts, have open source software desktops. The thing that's disappointing to me is that they all have their own Linux distribution. As a
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Next week I’m speaking at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference where the theme is “free software for innovative business.” If you are in the area, you should come – the conference is free and has good speakers and lots of interesting attendees. I know you are traditionally supposed to post the transcript of your
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Sandro Groganz interviewed me at OSiM – his questions were all about GNOME Marketing. (I even got to show off the GNOME Annual Report.) If you find it interesting, please add your thoughts or, better yet, join the GNOME Marketing team!
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I now work for a nonprofit board of directors, so when one of my friends told me that she just joined a nonprofit board and took a class on what it means to be on the board of directors, I got pretty excited. Over lunch, my friend (Serena) answered all my questions and brought me
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Ubiquity was officially announced this week. I installed it and I find myself using it all the time for really simple, but very useful, stuff. I use a calculator a lot. Now, when I’m in the middle of typing an email or reading a web page, I just hit two keys and type "calc 3256/3+2456"
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The GNOME Foundation is a nonprofit organization, a 501(c)(3), and is funded by donations from individuals and companies. So as executive director of the GNOME Foundation I figured I should learn a bit more about fund raising. While there are a lot of books about fund raising, there’s very little information out there about fund
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So earlier I blogged that I had seven bosses. (It was mostly in reaction to the fact that I felt like I was getting way too much attention!) But I realized this morning that I really feel like I got seven mentors. What a way to start out a new job – with not one
I always figured that if you didn’t notice an ad, it was because it was either (1) in a place you were never going to notice it or (2) you’ve seen it and tuned it out. So I was quite surprised last night when Frank came in last night and said "You put GNOME stickers
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At the Linux Foundation Summit, in the middle of an interview, I decided that 2008 is the year of the Linux desktop. (Incidentally, the Collaboration Summit is where Dave Neary planted a bug in my ear about the GNOME Foundation executive director job.) While my answer was a bit off the cuff (there’s nothing like
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