twittering on 2010-03-24

twittering on 2010-03-22

  • articulating your software project's mission will help you attract the right kinds of people to help move the project forward -@lh #
  • make a public statement that your lack of diversity is a bug. -chris ball #libreplanet #
  • Could we have a free software appstore? – Seth Schoen #libreplanet #
  • Gnome shell: think about things that absolute newbies need – Marina Zhurakhinskaya #libreplanet #
  • listening @asheeshlaroia talk about openhatch.org [http://openhatch.org] #
  • have rsi? learn more at gmarceau.qc.ca/wrists.html [http://gmarceau.qc.ca/wrists.html] #libreplanet #
  • Strategy discussions for Wikimedia has had 3000 contributions -@metasj #
  • Check it out at strategy.wikimedia.org [http://strategy.wikimedia.org] #libreplanet -@metasj #

twittering on 2010-03-21

  • Listening to John Gilmore talk about what's after cloning unix !#libreplanet #
  • Just bugfixing is not inspiring. What common-goal/opportunity do you see that we can pursue? !#libreplanet #
  • Shout-out for couchdb for open social data at !#libreplanet #
  • Eben Moglan talking about MySQL at #libreplanet right now. #
  • "Every technically competent 15-yr old in the world knows how to use MySQL" #libreplanet #
  • "No where on earth you can go to learn how to use Oracle for free." #libreplanet #
  • "An attempt to turn the most installed db on earth to destroy the only piece of sw Microsoft can justifiably pride itself in." #libreplanet #
  • (sorry, that quote was kinda bad 🙂 #
  • RT @teddks #Moglen #Oracle is sharpening the #MySQL dagger to plunge it into the heart of #MSSQL #libreplanet #lp10 #gnu #linux #frees#
  • i wish that people would say distributed instead of federated when talking about p2p. #
  • "this isn't the gratis software foundation." -rms #

Weekly tweet digest for 2010-03-21

twittering on 2010-03-19

twittering on 2010-03-18

twittering on 2010-03-17

  • Thinking about whether I can spend half the day hacking on arduino tomorrow. #dayoff #
  • wahoo! excited to have @joshwaihi hack at pugs.postgresql.org and make it better. in reply to joshwaihi #
  • Headed to PJUG for "Teaching Girls and Boys to Program Computers" http://calagator.org/events/1250458183 (was an @osbridge '09 presenter) #
  • RT @Roebot: Btw, according to Northbridge OSS is a great investment. #
  • Wore my opensqlcamp shirt to oracle offices and I'm recruiting! #foss #
  • Lesson plans!! Http://howardabrams.com/Scratch #
  • For geeklets: Lego "we do" kits are good for youngsters #teachprogammig #
  • Teaching things that are fun seems to make gender not matter as much (4th-6th grade) #teachprogramming #
  • Playground banter: "I know Scratch." #badgeofhonor #teachprogramming #
  • Battlebots in Java might be a stepping stone from scratch but @howardabrams suggest Python after scratch and Alice #teachprogramming #