After a week of booksprinting, we finished what looks to be an amazing book on bypassing internet censorship.
It’s available for purchase as a print book from lulu.com, here, and can be read on-line at flossmanuals.net, here.
Big shout out to Adam Hyde from FLOSS Manuals, and the entire Book Sprint crew. You all rock!
I’m immensely proud [...]

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5 years of wireless wizardry, a very successful book project, some time out as a linux enterprise consultant, some time spent combining my technology skills with my interest in africa, and a good 6 months mostly hanging out with the future. I’m now spending a lot of time thinking about what the next 2 years [...]

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I’ll be speaking at the Copenhagen Linuxforum on March 3rd. An entirely new presentation entitled:
“Free Software in Developing World Projects – Before the OLPC and Beyond”

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For the past 4 months I’ve been working to get a book out on wireless networking.
Together with some of the smartest, most passionate people i’ve ever had the pleasure to work with, and lead by experienced technical book author and editor Rob Flickenger, we’ve completed the book. It’s called “WirelessNetworking in the Developing World”, and [...]

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Yesterday on the last full day of

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Well, retrospect is unfair, as i am currently in one of the last panels, featuring free software experts from remote corners of the world (when seen from a berlin/copenhagen axis viewpoint).
It’s saturday evening, and i’m looking forward to an evening of whisky and dinner with good friends. So far WOS3 has not dissapointed, although compared [...]

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Blogging from the speakers podium at Wizards-of-OpenSource, just getting into the Panel on Free Networking, with Dewayne Hendricks, James Stevens, Juergen Neumann, Adam Shand and myself, moderated by Armin Medosch.
Eben Moglen, just finished his keynote. This guy is the real deal, the preacher of the Free Culture/Information movement. So eloquent it is almost embarassing to [...]

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TWiki . Moap . WebHome
one of the relizations i have come to working in the fringes of the international development community for the past 3 years is that if pressed to name one semi-”mythical” success of international development , many people will start talking about micro-finance.
Micro Finance is the practice of giving small (even [...]

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Africa Source: African Free and Open Source Software Developers Meeting
OK, I guess it’s official now. The wonderful people at the

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This weeks newsletter from the ICT for Development section of the Development Gateway is shock full of Open Source news related to the developing world. (And I’ve added a few extra tidbits of my findings from other sources):
Reuters reports on the, by now, well-known story that China is putting it’s money and mouth behind Open [...]

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