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	<description>Tales from the frontline of Free Software &#38; Social Enterprise</description>
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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>Emacs - time to modernise? (links for 2010-06-24)</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/06/links-for-2010-06-24/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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The Modernization of Emacs (the most important changes i think emacs should adopt)
Heresy? No, a collection of good ideas that would improve Emacs.
(tags: emacs elisp coding programming ergonomics gnu)





Link to the Social Web:


	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	


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		<title>The Right Choice for the Job?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/04/the-right-choice-for-the-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Back from giving my new &#8220;Free Software in the UK Voluntary Sector, and why you should care&#8221; talk to Manchester Free Software Group. A small audience, but a nice rambling debate over many fields, and good real ale at the Lass, so all-in-all a good evening.
Before travelling up to Manchester I spent a day not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Hardware &amp; CopyLeft</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/04/open-hardware-copyleft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LinuxUser &#38; Developer, issue 86, just came through the letterbox. I flicked through and a reader&#8217;s letter caught my eye - not because it called my Arduino article &#8220;wonderful&#8221; &#60;blush&#62;, but for its links to CopyLeft hardware resources.

QI-hardware, producers of the Ben NanoNote, and the MilkyMist One boards are all projects deserving much wider publicity [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/02/so-what-am-i-up-to/#comments</comments>
		<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>So long, AFFS</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2009/11/so-long-affs/</link>
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		<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>In Memoriam</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2009/07/in-memoriam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodgnus.org/2009/07/in-memoriam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a short post remembering Richard Rothwell, who died last Friday.
Three years ago I was made redundant from the BVSC&#8217;s MOST project, a project doing good things to get Free Software in the hands of voluntary sector organisations. Looking to carry on the good work, I pieced together ideas for a social enterprise to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quality from semi-brokenness</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2009/04/quality-from-semi-brokenness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodgnus.org/2009/04/quality-from-semi-brokenness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading Cory Docotorow&#8217;s short article on the psychology of making gaming pay in The Guardian, earlier this afternoon: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/apr/14/technology-2009-14-apr-cory-doctorow-gaming
As it neared its conclusion, it drew a parallel between the Free Software business model (the most common one that is: download our software for free, but pay us if you want help), and arbitrage [...]]]></description>
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