Submission Summary: 0 pending, 58 declined, 32 accepted (90 total, 35.56% accepted)
Try to ensure that whatever project you are in, you are doing your best to make it an open and friendly environment for anyone to get involved. It is after all meant to be a meritocracy, meant to be about freedom and personal empowerment. Let's try to minimise the impact of old world biases on our awesome community.
The FOSS community is great at discarding lousy code; occasionally it needs a reminder about discarding lousy and damaging attitudes that could result in loss of contributions from capable contributors due to the grinding toll that sexism exacts on the potential contributors."
"'The Russian military has been working on its own version of GNU/Linux, parts of which have recently been declassified by the All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute of Control Automation in the Non-Industrial Sphere (Vniins). According to Guriev, many specialised version of GNU/Linux distributions are produced, often in response to requests by local governments. In three Russian regions, most of the PCs in use in about a thousand schools have been switched over to GNU/Linux.'
The open format resoltuion states that ODF is more well-suited to allowing libraries to 'fulfill their role of preserving and providing access to information', in contrast to OOXML, which the CLA/ACB find is 'not sufficiently open, interoperable, or vendor-neutral' to assist libraries in their role of disseminating information."'re-examine the Telecommunications Act in order to clearly legislate in favour of a neutral Internet, requiring ISPs to comply with common carriage provisions and conduct business in a manner that is open, transparent, and accountable'
A skeptic would say that Robertson is just trying to save his own skin; but on the other hand, this is one point where Robertson and Richard Stallman agree."'If you don't have the right to store your own music online then you won't have the right to store ebooks, videos and other digital products as well. The notion of ownership in the 21st century will evaporate.'
Always look over your shoulder because everyone is watching and plotting against you.