http://www.neary-consulting.com Free software community consultancy Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:13:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Avec l'équipe de QuteCom, Neary Consulting a participé à la soirée téléphonie libre de La Cantine le 18 avril 2008. Devant une publique connaisseur en matière de VoIP, plusieurs présentations sur le thème de la téléphonie ont été proposé et français et en anglais: Sylvain Boily de Proformatique en maître d'oeuvre a ... http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2008/05/02/soiree-telephonie-libre-a-la-cantine/ From maemo news: Dave Neary is reading all kinds of maemo content as we speak: developer documentation, mailing list archives, web pages at maemo.org... He has a good reason for that: Nokia is funding some of his time to work as the content guy for the maemo community. Just like Niels ... http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2008/04/28/maemo-news-introducing-dave-neary/ (reposted from my personal blog) Lots of people are up in arms because Red Hat's desktop team released a statement containing this: "we have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future", and Ron Hovsepian said "Novell’s Suse Linux at the desktop is ... http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2008/04/21/opinion-red-hat-novell-canonical-and-the-free-software-desktop/ The Libre Graphics Meeting fundraising campaign has come to an end. After two weeks, the campaign raised USD$11,368 from over 275 donors, and the campaign badge which people could use to publicise the campaign appeared on over 750 sites, generating in excess of 850,000 page-views over the duration of the ... http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2008/04/19/libre-graphics-meeting-fundraising-campaign-over-declared-a-success/ The 3rd GNOME Mobile Summit being held as part of the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in Austin from the 8th to the 10th of April will be a forum where industry and community merge into one, enabling effective collaboration on adapting the GNOME platform to the needs of mobile computing. The ... http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2008/04/06/gnome-mobile-summit/ The Libre Graphics Meeting needs your help! In its third edition this year, this conference brings together  developers and users from free software graphics projects including the GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender, Krita and more. This year, the organisers are asking for your help to make the conference rock, and to cover the ... http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2008/04/01/libre-graphics-meeting-launches-fundraiser/ Last week I was in China for the first Linux Foundation/COPU China Developers Symposium. I got a chance to catch up with some people I had met before including Jim Zemlin and Bill Weinberg, both of whom had very encouraging things to say about GNOME in mobile platforms. In fact, ... http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2008/02/26/back-from-china/ Linux Magazine France, November 2006 (article online, December 2007): On n’utilise pas des mots comme "turnover" (taux d’attrition) pour les volontaires, mais il est intéressant de regarder pourquoi ce phénomène existe. Quels sont les caractéristiques qui font que certains projets ont plus de facilité à garder leurs développeurs que d’autres ? Like ... http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2008/01/10/in-the-press-lusure-dans-les-projets-de-logiciels-libres/