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	<description>Tales from the frontline of Free Software &#38; Social Enterprise</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Wordpress &amp; the Voluntary Sector</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/07/wordpress-the-voluntary-sector/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at WordCampUK - a conference for WordPress developers and users. There have been great presentations, from Accessibility &#38; HTML5 to WordPress Themes. However the real value of any conference is the corridor time, face-to-face chat with peers, and people doing all sorts of unexpected and fun things with Free Software.
WordCampUK has been a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computers for Free!</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/05/computers-for-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 07:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent the early part of this week helping Birmingham Friends of the Earth upgrade their LTSP system; one installed by my former colleague, the late Richard Rothwell. There&#8217;s always space for a hiccough or two across a major upgrade, but as ever the excellent community-contributed documentation on the Ubuntu fora provided answers to every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software Freedom: Big, Green &amp; Fair</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/03/software-freedom-big-green-fair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/03/software-freedom-big-green-fair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday saw the annual Chorlton Big Green Festival, one of the country&#8217;s largest Green Fairs, and this year blessed with a stall from Manchester Free Software (MFS).
Those of us volunteering to staff the MFS Stall had a great time - not just enjoying the vegan food and drink of the Fair, and catching up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UKUUG - &#8220;More than just profit&#8221; talk</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/03/ukuug-more-than-just-profit-talk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/03/ukuug-more-than-just-profit-talk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To the UKUUG&#8217;s Large Scale System Administrators&#8217; conference today where I was the rather strange choice of last minute speaker. Having spent 18 hours at the keyboard yesterday I wasn&#8217;t best prepared, but speaking on The Third Sector and Free Software shouldn&#8217;t have been too much of a challenge to me.
Indeed, despite the talk being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So what am I up to?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/02/so-what-am-i-up-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At recent events, when I meet new people, we naturally ask each other &#8220;What do you do?&#8221;. I&#8217;m failing quite badly at summarising my activities, so thought I&#8217;d briefly list current projects here, for reference:

Gaia University - IT strategy, project management, &#38; SysAdmin, in a programme to gradually upgrade every online aspect of this international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IT Happens</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/02/it-happens/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/02/it-happens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m travelling back from the Connecting 2.0 Communities event held this afternoon and evening at Madlab, in Manchester&#8217;s Northern Quarter. An MDDA-sponsored event to give technical and social media advice to community groups. I was arm-twisted into giving a short talk, so rapidly prepared an item on Social Media tactics and strategy culled from our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drupal in the Voluntary Sector (links for 2010-01-13)</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/01/links-for-2010-01-13/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/01/links-for-2010-01-13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>connectedweb</dc:creator>
		
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A few voluntary organisations using Drupal web software &#124; VoluntaryNews
I&#8217;m developing a few sites in Drupal myself, and it&#8217;s good to see that I&#8217;m not alone in this :-)
(tags: webdesign cms drupal vcs)





Link to the Social Web:


	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	


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		<title>So long, AFFS</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2009/11/so-long-affs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodgnus.org/2009/11/so-long-affs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Association For Free Software (AFFS) has been formally wound up this week. Founded at a meeting during the 2002 Sheffield Linux Seminar, AFFS was a membership organisation for UK supporters of Free Software - as distinct from a national chapter of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), which would have been more official, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk About Local - hyperlocal blogging &amp; reporting</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2009/10/talk-about-local-hyperlocal-blogging-reporting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodgnus.org/2009/10/talk-about-local-hyperlocal-blogging-reporting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of coverage of the death of local papers, but does this have to be the end of local reporting? Recently hyperlocal blogs have arisen everywhere from villages to inner-city postcodes to plug the gaps in local coverage.
These aren&#8217;t just replacements for local freesheets, but use social media (blogs, &#38; micro-blogs like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Admitting mistakes, saving money</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2009/08/admitting-mistakes-saving-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodgnus.org/2009/08/admitting-mistakes-saving-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had to face up to my chosen technology solution not being, in its current release, up to dealing with the project in a timely manner.]]></description>
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