Just our monthly reminder about our next FOSS FRIDAY on the 4th of May, from 12 noon to 7 pm at Fossbox Workshop, 46 Matilda House, St Katharine’s Way, E1W 1LG. Everyone is welcome, the drop-in session is for people interested in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), GNU/Linux OS (Ubuntu, Bodhi and LinuxMint) and [...]
Hello everybody it is that time of the month to remind you about our next FOSS FRIDAY on the 13th of April, from 12 noon to 7 pm at Fossbox Workshop, 46 Matilda House, St Katharine’s Way, E1W 1LG. Everyone is welcome, the drop-in session is for people interested in Free and Open Source Software [...]
Hi Everyone Remember that our next FOSS Friday is this coming Friday 2nd of March. Free drop-in session from 12 noon to 7 pm at Fossbox Workshop, 46 Matilda House, St Katharine’s Way, E1W 1LG. Everyone is welcome, the drop-in session is for people interested in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), Linux OS (Ubuntu, [...]
Don’t know much about this Open Direct Democracy project, but it looks interesting. The test site is down at the moment and, apparently, the project only exists in Icelandic so far but seems to be in active development. Will be keeping any eye on it . . .
We run a free drop-in workshop on the first Friday of every month — come along if you’d like to: Refurbish your slow, older PCs, laptops and netbooks with Ubuntu — a free desktop system alternative to Mac or Windows Find our more about Free Software for everyday tasks which runs on Windows, Mac or [...]
LibreOffice is the offshoot of Open Office which is being taken forward by a much bigger group of developers — and it’s good! Cleaner, faster and rather easier to use. I’ve been using the test version for a month or so and I’m really enjoying it — especially the improvements to Impress (presentation software) and [...]
Simple & Sustainable ICT for East London
Don’t forget our series of workshops for Communications staff runs in March. You can attend all three workshops or pick and choose — these free workshops are popular so book early. WordPress for simple websites, 1 March 2011, 12-5pm Covers the basics of setting up, customising and using WordPress as a blog or as a [...]
Free Scribus workshop for VCS organisations
Fossbox is running a set of three free workshops aimed at communications workers and anyone else who wants to produce more professional publicity materials without spending a fortune on software. These workshops are supported by Awards4All. The second workshop will cover the basics of using the Free Software graphics applications GIMP and Inkscape to create [...]
