FOSS

The sniping at each other from the higher ups at both RedHat and Canonical over who contributes more to what reminds me of a few things. A while back Canonical's Jono Bacon started something called Open Respect; why have people forgotten this?

For a while now I've had the idea of a planet instance for some projects I'm working on. Drupal can do this, but not elegantly. PlanetPlanet is a Python application designed to do just this, it's a tad clunky to set up and maintain. MoonMoon is as close to perfect as I can imagine this type of software could be.

The more I listen to the Ubuntu UK podcast, the more this idea grew on me, although it's not specific to them. Since the beginning the Ubuntu UK podcast presenters has decided to tailor their show towards getting the official nod from Mark Shuttleworth. This means keeping it clean, Ubuntu specific and generally positive about Ubuntu. It hasn't stopped them from explaining their bad experiences with Ubuntu so it's reasonably balanced right? Maybe not so much.

A while back on Identi.ca a throwaway comment between myself and Kevie led to a project called Unseen Studio. To save explaining twice, I'll simply point to the site. Unseen Studio is also the temporary home to a separate started by myself and Cobra2, a Free Culture Torrent Tracker project, the HPR episode explaining that concept is here. Feel free to join us.

A couple of weeks back I went on a rare family meal, which allowed me to catch up with people I've not seen in several years in a few cases, and to meet my new sister in law for the first time, who I found to be a great laugh and a welcome addition to the family. The whole area of "staying in touch" raised some questions in me which is the point of this post.