After ages of thinking and talking about it, I licensed the content of this blog under one of the Creative Commons liberal licenses: the Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States license. The Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license seems to be the best and most popular for bloggers to use a Creative Common license. (Roll call!)
I know some of my readers are keen Ubuntu Linux users, and tomorrow the new release — codenamed Gutsy Gibbon — comes out.
Do you plan on installing it? Investigating it?
Please comment, especially if you are a minister or church employee or leader, if this is your first time with Linux (or Ubuntu Linux) or both.
GNOME, the desktop that comes basic with my Ubuntu Linux operating system (and other versions of Linux) has its own guiding organization, which promotes GNOME at events all over the world. I think a lot of church people could appreciate the level of committment. I certainly appreciate the product.
To make exhibiting easier, they have a […]
I was very hopeful and encouraged that last year’s Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly (UUA GA) tried a version of an Unconference process within the main program, but was worried that its peculiar adaptations and schedule conflicts — plus its novelty to seasoned GA participants — would doom it.
Reviews from people on the ground were […]
After talking about Creative Commons licenses for a long while, I think that I’ll begin releasing most of my work under one in particular. It offers the best mix (for me) of extended and reserved rights, and would work better for people wanting to build upon my creative material, rather than just crassly exploiting it. […]
Here’s a resource that might help churches that
use Windows operating system computers (but not Vista, it seems)
want to make documents public as simple PDFs
don’t have the funds to buy Adobe Acrobat
Get PDFCreator.
Details here. Downloads here.
That’s September 15. That should give you some time to prepare! Learn more here.
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and […]
Happy Blog Day! (Why today, if you squint, 3108 — today’s date — looks like blog) . Here’s the rules:
Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting
Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending them as part of BlogDay 2007
Write a short description [...]
This fun quiz is going around, but I first saw it at Jamie Goodwin’s blog. My result:
At BarCampDC today — a “ad-hoc unconference and is part of the larger BarCamp movement. While there are topics suggested for discussion, there is no set agenda until everyone gathers. Attendees are required to participate to some degree: either by giving a presentation, demo, etc. or by facilitating a group discussion.”
This gets back to the […]
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