Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

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Work

24 Jun 2010, 15:40 p.m.

The Second Step: HOWTO encourage open source work at for-profits

At the excellent Open Source Bridge conference earlier this month, people seemed to enjoy my talk. The one-liner: Even at pro-FLOSS businesses, logistical obstacles and incentive problems get in the way of giving back. I’ll …

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17 May 2010, 16:40 p.m.

Snort, Chuckle

So I was watching a bunch of DJ Earworm mashups and saw this on my screen: What do you notice there? Perhaps this ad? We love freedom of choice Why we don't support restrictions on …

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10 May 2010, 22:06 p.m.

Zaragoza GNOME Marketing Hackfest, Day 3

On Thursday, 6 May, the last day of the hackfest, we got so much done! (See Paul's photo). The "we" here came from three continents: Daniel Baeyens, Stormy Peters, Jason D. Clinton, Vincent Untz, Andreas …

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10 May 2010, 10:29 a.m.

GNOME & Conference Planning & Writing

I'm back in New York City. Big priorities this week include: Preparing to move to a bigger apartment here in Astoria Getting the GNOME 3.0 launch marketing machine up and running Organizing the late May …

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06 May 2010, 9:30 a.m.

GNOME Marketing Hackfest 2010, Day Two

On Wednesday morning, starting around 9:30, we broke into small groups to work intensively on video, GNOME Ambassadors, and the website. For example, Bharat, Vincent, and I started a business card template for GNOME Ambassadors, …

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05 May 2010, 7:49 a.m.

GNOME Marketing Hackfest (Zaragoza, Spain), Day One

Yesterday we officially started the GNOME Marketing hackfest, centering on planning the release of GNOME 3.0 on 29 September 2010. Paul Cutler started us off by talking about goals for the week. He wants us …

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04 May 2010, 1:18 a.m.

Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully GNOME

I am in Zaragoza, Spain for the GNOME marketing hackfest. One thing that came up over dinner: People who have heard about GNOME 3 may have heard about GNOME Shell (a new UI that makes …

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27 Apr 2010, 10:55 a.m.

Importing iCal .ics Files to N900 Calendar (Maemo 5)

I have a laptop running Mac OS 10.4.11 and iCal 2.0.5 (ancient and proprietary, I know, that's why I just got the ZaReason Hoverboard running Ubuntu). I decided to move my calendaring over to my …

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23 Apr 2010, 7:16 a.m.

Out the Door

Off to QuahogCon in Providence, Rhode Island. Say hi if you're there! I have some free time this afternoon and welcome sightseeing advice.

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18 Apr 2010, 23:16 p.m.

A Few Tech-ish-Related Observations

New Work City is a Manhattan coworking space/group that charges $25 for a desk for a day. Floatleft: an international two-woman Drupal consulting firm that provides web development services to NGOs and nonprofits. Neat! A …

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