I attended FOSDEM ’08 which took place on the 23rd and 24th of February in Brussels. Compared to other events, FOSDEM is a big event with over 4000 (?) participants and over 200 lectures (from lightning talks to keynotes). It occupied three buildings at a local university. Many sessions were taking place at the same …
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Aug 04 2007
OOXML voting process and controversy
By the end of this month, the ITC 1/SC 34 Technical Committee (ISO) will be voting on whether to accept or not OOXML as an ISO standard. The voting countries (Participating countries) are Brazil (ABNT) Bulgaria (BDS) China (SAC) Colombia (ICONTEC) Cyprus (CYS) Czech Republic (CNI) Côte-d’Ivoire (CODINORM) Denmark (DS) Finland (SFS) France (AFNOR) …
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Jun 25 2007
Say No to OOXML
Click on the image above to visit the petition page. I copy here the terms of the petition to say no on the standardisation of MSOOXML at ISO. I ask the national members of ISO to vote “NO” in the ballot of ISO DIS 29500 (Office OpenXML or OOXML format) for the following reasons: There …
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Jun 02 2007
Διαθέσιμη η νέα διανομή Fedora 7
Διαβάζοντας την ανακοίνωση του Δημήτρη, βλέπουμε τα νέα χαρακτηριστικά που περιλαμβάνει η νέα έκδοση της διανομής Fedora. Η ελληνική ομάδα που είναι πίσω από τη διανομή Fedora μετάφρασε τις σημειώσεις κυκλοφορίας της Fedora 7 για την προσωπική σας ευχαρίστηση. Ολοκλήρωσα χτες τη λήψη του DVD ISO της Fedora 7 και το γράφω τώρα σε οπτικό …
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May 03 2007
Ubuntu 7.04 DVD edition 4.3GB: done
Have been trying to download Ubuntu 7.04 DVD edition for the last few days. I use the amazing wget program with the command line looking like wget -c http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/releases/7.04/release/ubuntu-7.04-dvd-i386.iso I started off the download in Windows, and over the course of the days I would interrupt and restart the download depending on what I was …
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