So to cut a long story short OLPC Australia project has gone through various formations. Its current formation is to assist 400,000 XO’s across Australia in five years specifically in rural and remote areas. Please see http://www.laptop.org.au/vision/overview I started doing work on this project with Pia and Jeff Waugh on OLPC Friends in 2008. So it was a pleasure for me to take on a role of Project Management and Development for the web solutions…
http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/ Papers by Eric S Raymond The Cathedral and the Bazaar was a key paper in helping Netscape to make the decision to release their source code under the Mozilla name (Mozilla was the original name for the browser)
People ask me sometimes about security I spent a small time of life working (at this point its a large one but in 30 more years it will be small) as an email security professional. When people ask me about security they go straight to code hacking and white hat versus black hat. If I was writing the syllabus for a security unit/course there would be a subject on social engineering. I find that to…