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Portland Plans to Become Open Source Mecca
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| In its ongoing effort to become the coolest city in the U.S., the
| mayor of Portland, Oregon, is going to attempt tomorrow night to
| make it an "open source city," making its data as open as
| possible while respecting privacy, and buying open source
| applications when possible.
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http://www.daniweb.com/news/story226660.html
The next wave of feminism crashes on the FOSS shores
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| A new wave of women's liberation is crashing on an unexpected
| shore, the world of free and open source developers. The FOSS
| communities might pride themselves with being the promoters of
| free, open and transparant. It is a world where a meritocracy
| rules, where you are judged by your skills and not by who you are
| of who you know. Right? Wrong! In the wake of the Gran Canaria
| Desktop Summit the grand master of free software, Richard
| Stallman, received a lot of flack due a remark that was
| considered sexist. This week Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth, by
| most accounts the mr. Nice Guy in the FOSS world, found himself
| in the firing line because of a remark in his LinuxCon keynote
| which he no doubt considered to be funny but was condescending to
| women. The responses to Stallman's and Shuttleworth's remarks are
| no isolated incidents. The women in the FOSS community are making
| themselves heard. And the men should pay attention.
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http://www.ruminationsonthedigitalrealm.org/portal/open-source-promotion/the-next-wave-of-feminism-crashes-on-the-foss-shores
Recent:
Portland Oregon Hosts Lindependence Event
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| To the surprise of many, Lindependence 2008 did not end in Felton California.
| What many thought to be a publicity stunt has proven to be exactly what the
| founders planned for it to be...a template. So where do we go from here?
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| Portland Oregon.
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| While the initial founders of Lindependence could have looked back on Felton
| with rested satisfaction, neither of them decided that was what they wanted
| to do. When David Kaplan and Tyler Bearden approached Larry Cafiero about
| conducting the event in Portland, Larry and Ken were more than glad to help.
| With a bit of guidance from the founders, David and Tyler have worked hard to
| bring this next event into reality.
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http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/10/portland-oregon-hosts-lindependence.html
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