Through a series of kinda mind boggling coincidences, meeting people and talking about what I have in mind and am passionate about, earlier this month I ended up with commit access to the Pippy activity (a Sugar application). Wow! Awesome. A few weeks back, I had decided to fix as …

This blog post by a teacher who's migrating his school IT system to an open-source infrastructure just came up on the Ubuntu-ie mailing list. It's happening in Northern Ireland but still goes on the list of "Irish schools using open-source" :)

That's really cool. The comments promise a follow-up post, I …

I barely took any pictures at FOSDEM this year, so I'm going to steal (with credit!) pictures from various Flickr streams.

Saturday morning began with the customary welcome keynote, with a little twist for the FOSDEM dance (heh!). Wireless was up and running well before 12.00, which was a …

Today I started looking around for more research on schools using or migrating to open-source solutions and I'm finding quite an overwhelming amount of case studies (it's great! but difficult to review and digest) at all sorts of level (country-wide policies, city-wide, single school, county , district, area, state...)

Trying to …

This article is about a year old, but it doesn't matter: Diaries of a Core Maintainer #6:) A tale of two developers.

Re-reading that story is always a bit scary and cause for self-reflection because my approach is so similar to Pat's, particularly when starting out with a new idea …