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I'll be speaking about Book Sprints, cc-licensed books and the developing world at a Free Culture event in Copenhagen this Sunday. It's a joint project of Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke (ActionAid Denmark) and Creative Commons Denmark. It's arranged by my recent acquaintance (soon to be friend?
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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,
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Despite having kept a low profile, and done next to no development-related work in the past 2 years, a old journalist contact of wire.less.dk gave me a call yesterday, and today there's a couple of decent quotes on danish on-line computer mag version2. It's
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We're looking for some new colleagues here at AllAfrica, where, in case you missed the memo, I'm now Director of Technology. It's a great place to work, especially if you dig Africa the way i do, and you want to work with cool web
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IMGP3666 Originally uploaded by tt.
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IMGP3691 Originally uploaded by tt. Here's an early preview of our newborn son Arthur.... Thanks for all the kind words and congratulations. Parenthood is treating us well, and we're tired but happy.
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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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In january this year we released the first book in what has just become a series. The book was written by a team of wireless experts working closely with each other over the space of 3 months. We call this concept a "Book Sprint", and I am somewhat
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I am currently back in Trieste, with my good friends Marco and Carlo, and this time the topic is Bandwidth Optimization. More info here: ICTP-SDU: Lowbandwidth Optimization Techniques I've given lectures and had lab sessions on Traffic Shaping, and Bandwidth Monitoring, as well as some very basic linux
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Disclosure: I am currently in the proccess of interviewing for a job with Fon and this piece is largely a result of me spending time (for the first time in years) on the challenges of shared wireless in the rich countries of the west (rather than thinking mostly about the
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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'
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For the past 4 years; in fact ever since that fateful day about 5 years ago when I said yes to travel to ghana, working as a volunteer for Africa Express , and genreally having a blast. It was my baptism into the fascinating world that has occupied the last 4