Random tidbits Bdale thinks are worth documenting.
Bdale Garbee
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Thu, 26 Jul 2007
SPI Board Election
All contributing members of
SPI
should make time RIGHT NOW to go vote in the
SPI Board Election
currently underway. We have 13 candidates from a variety of SPI's associated
projects running for 6 open seats this year.
The election closes at 2007-07-28 23:59:59 UTC, so don't delay!
TAPR Open Hardware License
John Ackermann, N8UR, has authored two new licenses intended to foster
collaborative hardware development projects. I've known John for many years
through our mutual involvement in
TAPR.
He invited me to review several early drafts, and did a great job of
integrating the feedback that I and his other early reviewers provided.
The latest drafts of these licenses are open to public review and comment until March 7th, 2007. I invite readers interested in hardware development and/or the nuances of license texts to review the TAPR Open Hardware License and associated non-commercial variant, and provide feedback through the mechanisms provided.
Thu, 21 Dec 2006
Mis-Quote Fixed
In his
article
about the SPI decision to transfer domains to OSI, Bruce Byfield originally
mis-attributed a quote typed by David Graham to me. I am pleased to report
that he has now fixed the attributions.
Thanks, Bruce!
Wed, 02 Aug 2006
Meeting over GPRS
Those of you who follow such things may have noticed that I became
SPI
President today.
The cool part, though, is how I managed to participate in the special board meeting to select officers today.
The meeting fell in the middle of the drive from our house up into the mountains to the Rocky Ridge Music Center near Estes Park, Colorado, where my daughter is attending a music camp. About 15 minutes before the meeting was supposed to start, we drove out of the edge of GSM phone coverage just beyond the town of Lyons... I turned the car around and drove back into town and parked adjacent to the surprisingly interesting Sandstone Park, which is part of a sculpture trail in the middle of town. My wife and kids wandered around the park while I fired up my new HP nc2400 notebook and established a GPRS connection through my aging Ericsson T39 phone using gprsec, which sadly is not yet packaged for Debian.
Two minor hacks due to my choice of phone. I needed the flag_time=0 option on the ppp_async module command line to work around a bug in the T39 as per the GPRS-HOWTO, and noauth in the ppp config emitted by gprsec.
Participating in the meeting was painless, other than delaying our lunch for a half hour or so... It's really nice when things work the way they're supposed to.