French students to get open source software on USB key

A recent InfoWorld story has caught my attention: open source software to be distributed to students.

French authorities will give out 175,000 USB memory sticks loaded with open-source software to Parisian high-school students at the start of the next school year.

What student doesn’t like free stuff? Though the concept of “free software” might be slightly lost [...]

The Open Source gift guide – MakeZine style!

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, MAKE Magazine is publishing an “Open Source gift guide” – present ideas in the spirit / theme of Open Source. With my recent involvement into Open Source, this is naturally an interesting read.

“There are hundreds of gift guides this holiday season filled with junk you can buy [...]

dotProject Percent Bar Gradient mod

Another one for dotProject – an Open Sourced Project Management software that I take interest in.

Following the theme of my previous mod, the idea is to convey the most amount of information at a glance. Looking at the Project’s Progress (project percent complete) specifically, the best icon is a background bar graph representing the percentage. [...]