Plone in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch
November 7th is World Plone Day, when the Plone community will run outreach events around the world to “promote and educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using Plone in …
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Two Posts On The Meltdown
In case you’re interested but don’t follow O’Reilly Radar, I’ve recently made a few posts there about the mortgage dramas: Effect of the Depresson on Technology The Connected …
Cybernetics Quotes
Reading A Curriculum for Cybernetics and Systems Theory, I found some thought-provoking and sometimes inspirational quotes. I’ve collected them below: “When we try to pick up anything by …
More on the bizdev shortage in NZ
James McGlinn emailed me a great reply to my piece on the business cofounder shortage in NZ, and he’s finally posted it. You should read it because I agree with everything he says.
NZ Broadband Pricing and Network Neutrality
In this Ziff-Davis Australia article, the leaders of Australia’s three largest ISPs declare network neutrality to be an American problem and explain why. It’s an interesting argument, but …
Memo to Future Nat on Slides
Reading back through my notebook at my jottings from last week’s frantic flurry of meetings, I found this hard-learned lesson: When preparing slides for others, they MUST read them when …
NZ Open Source Awards
(reposted from The O’Reilly Radar blog) Wednesday night in Wellington is a lot more exciting when the New Zealand Open Source Award ceremony is on! The Minister for Communications and …
Software Freedom Day Notes: ACTA
Mark Harris lead this session. Was at SSC, MORST, now Independent. When Wikileaks in May released ACTA doc, saw NZ mentioned, began digging. ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Proposed …
Business values
I had dinner tonight with my friend Cath Lewis, the awesome real estate agent. She told me that her new company felt right because honesty and empathy were at the top of their values. I think most of …
Software Freedom Day
I’ll be in Wellington on Saturday, September 20th, for Software Freedom Day. It’s open source’s open day, a chance for the general public who might have been curious about open …