by Jono Bacon | May 7, 2006 | Uncategorized
This weekend has unfortunately been blighted by concern. Banger, one of our pooches has been in a lot of pain since Saturday, and we are not entirely sure why. He has been to the vets and even had a trip to the emergency vets last night. The poor little thing really...
by Jono Bacon | May 5, 2006 | Uncategorized
Took a half-day off to get our fence strengthened. While this was going on I had a poke into some [LUGRadio Live 2006](https://www.lugradio.org/live/) related business. I called the official hotel and enquired about how many rooms have been rented for LUGRadio Live....
by Jono Bacon | May 4, 2006 | Uncategorized
Today is a great day for open standards, with [OpenDocument Format accepted as an ISO standard](https://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20060503080915835). This is fantastic news, and news that adds extra validity for the OpenDocument format,...
by Jono Bacon | May 3, 2006 | Uncategorized
Long day today. Woke up insanely and headed over to Birmingham to do a talk about Voice Over IP with [Paul](https://www.devel.co.uk/) and Group3. Despite getting stuck in traffic due to a smash up on the M6, the seminar went well and was fairly well attended. Nice to...
by Jono Bacon | May 2, 2006 | Uncategorized
Wow, [The Increasing Importance of Community](https://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/9330) got [slashdotted](https://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/01/110203). It also made an appearance on [OSNews](https://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=14485) and...
by Jono Bacon | May 1, 2006 | Uncategorized
In recent years, I have been getting the distinct impression that the Open Source community is playing an increasing important role in distributions and business. Once pushed to the side, the community is now something that the large distributors seem to be actively...