I'll be interviewing Jeff Waugh tonight on RRR's technology show, Byte into IT. Jeff will be giving us an update on the local work being done with the One Laptop per Child laptop, the XO. OLPC volunteers are hard at work in the south pacific region and right here in Australia. If you're ...

I was pretty disappointed to read this article in the SMH yesterday on the birth of eDemocracy in Australia. Written by someone from GetUp, it failed to mention OpenAustralia.org, while spruiking GetUp's forthcoming website, Project Democracy, which will actually run on OpenAustralia.org's software and use OpenAustralia.org data. Here's the article I ...

MIS magazine (Australia) has just published a feature I wrote for them on the uptake of open source software in Australia. A lot of the feature was based on research & interviews I undertook at Linux.conf.au earlier this year. Open Season

One of the fascinating things about open source, to me, is the way that its ideas about freedom of information have inspired everything from software licensing to music mashups. The possibilities, but also the problems, of applying notions of open source licensing to other areas such as publishing were brought ...

[crossposted to Linux Chix, Linux Australia,  LCA  and GGD lists, apologies if you see this a few times.] How would you like a mentor to help you improve your proposal for a talk at Linux.conf.au? If you're a female geek (professional or student) and thinking of submitting a tech talk to ...

Linux.conf.au is heading down south to Tasmania in 2009, so if you fancy a trip down south and you have some technical knowledge you'd like to share - put your name forward as a speaker! Ben Powell from the "March South" organising team emailed me to let me know that ...

I've just plastered this news all over Crikey, but had to give OpenAustralia.org a big plug here too. This is a project - based on open source principles -to put Hansard (the official report of the debates and proceedings of Parliament) online and make it searchable. People in the open ...

Not strictly Open Source, but I'm hoping that we'll get lots of support and interest from the Open Source community. :) Anne-Marie and I would like to invite each and every Melbourne geek woman to join us for the first Melbourne Geek Girl Dinner on Thursday, 29 May. We'll be meeting at ...

I'm going over my notes from LCA 2008 as I write a feature on open source for MIS magazine, and this quote from Dirk Hohndel, Intel's chief technologist for open source, still stands out to me: "Next time you buy hardware, think very hard about a way that you can ...

My writeup of Linux.conf.au (LCA) 2008 has appeared in the international Linux Magazine. I googled and found it for your reading pleasure - you'll need to open it in PDF format, but it's a fun little read (if I do say so myself). The guys at Linux Mag did promise ...

I was lucky enough to be invited to attend Senator Kate Lundy's pre-2020 Summit event, the Foundations of Open, last week. I was the only media representative there, and it was a fascinating event. The day covered a range of topics about open source tech and its potential for the government ...

Another interesting event coming up is an event being hosted by the ACS which will feature Waugh Partners consultant Pia Waugh talking about her involvement in volunteering in IT and the Open Source community and how it's helped her achieve as a business person. Pia's talk will cover her experience with ...

I spoke with Senator Kate Lundy this morning ahead of the "Foundations of Open" event which she is hosting in Canberra on Thursday. In the leadup to the national 2020 summit, Senators and Members were encouraged to host their own local summits - and Senator Lundy elected to focus on ...