Free Software Leftovers
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How to survive FOSDEM
I used to say that FOSDEM is a week long conference in two days. I don’t think it is valid any longer. Should say two weeks now as last time it was something about 700 talks. Still during two days.
I also used to say that I can not afford not being at FOSDEM. It is probably the easiest way to meet developers from all those projects I worked with or was interested in.
But it is not just Saturday and Sunday. On Friday evening there is a beer event which nowadays takes place at street leading to Delirium Café. Can be hard to get there due to number of people but it is worth it. Easy way to meet far too many familiar faces. And get beer (once you managed to reach bar).
But how to survive FOSDEM? Food. Logistics. Clothes. Logistics. Mobile app.
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Good riddance to the Open Gaming License
This is exactly the kind of thing that trips up people who roll their own licenses, and people who trust those licenses. The OGL predates the Creative Commons licenses, but it neatly illustrates the problem with letting corporate lawyers – rather than public-interest nonprofits – unleash "open" licenses on an unsuspecting, legally unsophisticated audience.
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WotC Makes Major Changes To D&D OGL License, Sends Community Into A Frenzy
If you go back and review Techdirt stories about Dungeons & Dragons, the beloved tabletop fantasy roleplaying game, you will see that most of them focus on the stupidity of moral panics, in which D&D is often swept up. This post is decidedly different. Wizards of the Coast (WotC) recently announced there would be changes to its Open Gaming License (OGL) licensing agreement for creators making content around D&D’s core ruleset. And we’ll absolutely get into that. But first: a history lesson.
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Introducing Erik Avila – The Mozilla Support Blog
I’m delighted to introduce you to Erik Avila who is joining our team as an additional Community Support Advocate.
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A browser tweak for system administrators doing (web) network debugging
As a system administrator (and sometimes an ordinary user of the web), I periodically find myself trying to work out why I or people around here can't connect to some website or, sometimes, a portion of the website doesn't work. It turns out that there's a tweak you can make to Firefox and Chrome (and probably other browsers) that makes this somewhat easier to troubleshoot.
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It's probably a good thing some malformed URLs are considered “valid”
It seems it's all too easy to generate double slashes in the path component of a URL, because I received via email a report that my current feed files all had that issue.
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FOSS Weekly #23.02: Free Linux Book, Cooler Master Goes Open Source and More [Ed: Abhishek has put up a paywall in It's FOSS; It's probably not unethical (making money for his work might be OK), but it discriminates against some of the audience.]
This is the year of the rabbit as per the Chinese Zodiac.
This is the year of the penguin for Linux users (like every year).