DebConf 2012 – Nicaragua
After 4 flights, about 15,000 miles, a beach, some Toña and cheese and lots of geeks, I’m able to update my Places I’ve Been map by adding Nicaragua to it. I was speaking at...
Liberal Murmurs Politics, tech and herding cats from Neil McGovern
Digital Economy Act – And so it begins
Today, OFCOM issued a press release entitled “New measures to protect online copyright and inform consumers”. According to the announcement, internet users will be encouraged to download music and films through legal channels under...
I’m going to…
I’ve recently book my places at a few conferences, so just to confirm: I hope to see a few people there!
Anti-ACTA Demo – my speech
I’m on my way back from the Anti ACTA demo in London, at which I was asked to speak. I was good to see a number of people attend. I bumped into the wonderful...
Government Open Standards Consultation
The government is currently consulting on open standards, and I have responded on behalf of Collabora. We believe that efforts to avoid vendor lock in, and to open up government from the extra expense...
My speech on shared housing in Cambridge
At a recent council meeting, the Labour group tried to introduce a motion with the aim of limiting shared housing in Cambridge. I believe that this is deeply flawed, and spoke against it. Thanks...
Gnome 3, multiple monitors and desktops
Today I tried to install Debian Wheezy on a Lenovo X220, in preparation for the upcoming release. It generally went well, with just a couple of incompatabilities: the wireless card requires some firmware in...
LibreOffice and UK Government
One of the things that Collabora does is work with other open source projects to improve things for open source software in general. I was chatting with Michael Meeks of SUSE fame and we...
A comparison between the Coalition’s Youth Contract and Labour’s Real Jobs Guarantee
Labour have recently announced their answer to youth unemployment, but the numbers are just not behind the headlines. All policies cost money, and this is to be funded by… you guessed it, an attack...