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2008/07/31

Lots going on in Montreal on the Free Software side

Filed under: English, Montréal, anglais, drupal, free software Robin @ 20:35 (571 lectures)

I was looking at my Free software aggregator, Informatique libre and found out a bunch of things.

Lots of Linux activity in Montreal. Red Hat arrive à Montréal, ouverture du bureau de Savoir-faire Linux à Ottawa (SFL est une compagnie de Montréal) et Canonical (Ubuntu) engage.

And Free software activity in general:
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laconi.ca microblogging platform, now with tags and multilingual

Filed under: English, anglais, communication, free software, laconica, microblogging Robin @ 14:15 (615 lectures)

Laconica, the free software powering identi.ca and related microblogging sites just got a few new features tonight. Users can now choose the language of the interface, between English, English (NZ), English (US) and French (FR). While this doesn’t seem like a lot of choice, Evan expects the community to quickly create the needed translation for as many languages as possible. Klingon and Esperanto included :)
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2008/07/30

Tracking, the killer feature. Now Identi.ca has it too!

Filed under: English, FLOSS, anglais, communication, decentralization, free software, laconica, microblogging, open source Robin @ 16:49 (683 lectures)

Wasn’t it the feature that killed twitter? Or maybe you’re wondering what it is. I’m only mentionning it since the laconi.ca federation is now supporting that feature, thanks to Dustin (oh, Dustin’s homepage is pretty cool too).

So you’re using twitter (or plurk, brightkite, pownce, maybe even identi.ca or one of its siblings) and you like it realtime, so of course you’re using SMS or Instant Messaging (Jabber, AIM, whatever). You’ve got your friends, your subscriptions. Wouldn’t it be nice to follow words too? And I don’t mean hashtags (words preceded with “#” to mark them of separately). I mean anything. Interested in what/when people get up or go to bed? Track “morning” and “night”, and watch the flow.
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