Infrastructure organisations handle and disseminate a lot of information and work with a lot of groups. This can lead to stress for staff, problems with information overload and with communications across the sector. Increasingly, VCOs and non-profits need to work together, explore new models for services and get costs down. At the same time, demand [...]
Fossbox is organising a conference with Okaycomputer for women using FLOSS in development, advocacy, activism, or digital projects on 15 November in London — there’s an outline for the event and a call for participation on the Flossie website and you can join the FLOSSIE mailing list here.
Paula has an article in the LASA’s latest Computanews on cloud services, openness, and the VCS. We’ll also be offering practical workshops to support collaborative working for non-profits in the Autumn — more news soon.
If you’re a woman who participates in free software or free culture in any way, fill out the Ada Initiative open technology and culture census.
We’re really excited about participating in an EU-funded project with Maiz migrants centre in Linz, Austria, the University of Manchester and other European partners to raise awareness of child safety and women’s issues among migrant female guardians and women working with migrant children and adolescents. Download press release here.
The police are asking Nominet (who register UK domains) for powers to close domains without any kind of judicial oversight. Whilst this can seem reasonable for crimes such as fraud, who knows what the police might decide is ‘terrorist’ (the London Cycle Ride debacle comes to mind) or ‘obscene’ (seizure of Mapplethorpe books comes to [...]
