News
2006-November-03
Version 1.0 of gNewSense
went online today. Developers, documenters, and reviewers are
sought. gNewSense is a GNU+Linux distribution with a focus on
freedom. Not only does it contain no non-free software packages,
the developers have even scraped the binary blobs out of the kernel.
This has cause some hardware to be unsupported, or not completely
supported, so help is needed to make that a temporary problem. Work
will also have to be done to talk with hardware distributors to tell
them binary blobs are no acceptable.
The bulk of the work has been done by Brian Brazil and Paul O'Malley
- well known faces at the IFSO monthly meetings. IFSO sends its
congratulations.
2006-November-01
The AGM of the Irish Linux Users Group takes place on Saturday November
4th. Details and speakers are online
at: http://www.linux.ie/lists/pipermail/ilug/2006-November/090652.html
Presentation topics include GPLv3 and
Devices Rigged to Malfunction, and
the gNewSense GNU+Linux
distro.
2006-October-03
Reviews, summaries and some recordings of talks have been put
online on the KDE
wiki.
A video
and summary of Ciaran O'Riordan's GPLv3 talk has also been put
online separately.
2006-July-28
A reminder that aKademy
2006 will be happening in Trinity College Dublin from September 23rd to
30th.
This is the annual meeting of the KDE community and should be a great
opportunity to meet other supporters of Free Software.
A peliminary conference program is now on-line.
2006-March-30
IFSO has responded to the European Commission's questionnaire
"On the patent system in Europe". IFSO's response
supported the submission by Free Software Foundation Europe, and
added extensive comments of its own. The text which was sent was
posted
on the fsfe-ie public mailing list.
2006-March-21
Akademy 2006 announced for Dublin September 2006. IFSO will be lending assistance to this major Free Software developers convention.
2006-March-19
Members of IFSO had Sunday lunch today with Fernanda Weiden of FSF Latin America. The organising
of future IFSO + FSFLA events in Ireland was among the
topics discussed. Three members of FSFLA's seven-person committee
will be in or near Ireland in the coming months. On the fsfe-ie mailing list there has
been posted a
summary of the plans for these events.
2006-March-16
The FOSS Means Business
conference in Belfast was declared a success and many people were
impressed by Bruce Perens and Richard Stallman's lectures. IFSO had
a stall and presented a t-shirt to Perens. All 14 of the remaining
t-shirts that were brought sold out during the course of the day and
IFSO gained two new members.
2006-February-27
IFSO's Annual General Meeting was held in The Duke pub in Dublin
city centre. After a quorum vote, the 2005 committee was
re-elected. Those attending then went for a Dinner.
2006-February-21
Press release: FREE SOFTWARE
MEANS BUSINESS IN IRELAND, MARCH 16th
2006-February-1
The IFSO AGM will be held on the evening of 27th of February, in Dublin. All interested parties are invited to attend.
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