Occasionally I get noticed. Here are some of those times.
by Phil Odence -
NetworkWorld
01 April 2011
I tried to disassociate CDL with April Fool's as much as possible, but I just couldn't ignore this gem.
Lest you assume that this was just a spur of the moment thing for Tuna, I found a discussion thread dated two years ago in which his ideas were first beginning to hatch, if you will. Mr. Harris was shooting for something "less restrictive than the GPL," but which would provide him with "more lulz," which I confess I had to look up in the Urban Dictionary. The CDL definitely has more lulz than virtually every OSI approved license.
by Cade Metz -
The Register
26 March 2011
This article really put CDL in front of the public eye, and one or two projects adopted the license as a result
No doubt, Google will object to the CDL on the grounds of license proliferation. And then Microsoft will introduce its own version, dubbed the Permissive Chicken Dance license, which will require anyone who uses its code to perform the Swiss polka until they die from exhaustion.
by David Huerta -
HeatSync Labs Blog
March 2 2011
Full disclosure: I'm friends with the author of this one.
After being bored by his non-web controlled RC boat, Tuna decided to let the internet take the wheel and build something to make it happen or die trying. The boat itself was a skimmer with a net attached, adding the bonus of having the internet clean his pool for him.
by Myself -
SunnyConf
September 25 2010
I gave a trollerific lightning talk at the first
SunnyConf in Tempe, Arizona (which has $100 admission, but I dodged that by disguising myself as
@willbradley). Unfortunately, video of this talk is not available. Clearly a conspiracy cooked up by the MongoDB guys who were present.
by Myself -
OSCON
24 July 2008
Back from the TeensOnLinux days when I was just 15/16, a hacker by the name of Kristian Erik Hermansen payed my way to Portland, Oregon to present at OSCON on how FOSS can reach out to teenagers as a demographic. I was going to present as part of the colocated Ubuntu conference, but when that was canceled, they bumped me into the main track of presentations. Video of this talk is available somwehere.
Teens are a great market for open source. They love community and the "breaking away from the Man" sort of feeling, so they are quick to adopt alternatives to what everyone else uses (take that society!). As students, they usually aren't too busy to find some time to contribute something. It is also the age of learning and exploration of new ideas. Getting involved in Ubuntu and FOSS is a great way to learn something new.
Back in 2007, when I was 15 years old, I started a community called Teens on Linux. I have since handed the domain and chatroom off to somebody else to take in a new direction, but it got to be somewhat mainstream in 2007-2008. Shortly after its founding, it was mentioned in Linux Format, a monthly UK magazine devoted to Linux and Open Source software, in their regular Linux User Groups feature. It describes the nature of ToL's founding, and includes an early screenshot of the website we set up, using a crappy default joomla theme and a logo that looks like macaroni art. Don't judge me, I was 15.
This month's International User Group of the Month is a little bit unusual. Despite the fact that it started in Phoenix, Arizona, ... its membership is not restricted to those with a geographical proximity to the dusty highways typical in the bottom left corner of the United States. Location has no boundary, but age does. It's a LUG for teenagers. The group is called 'Teens on Linux,' and was founded after a teenager asked for the location of a Linux teen community on the Linux Action Show -- a popular podcast for Linux users. The result was a thread of people on the Linux Action Show forum who wanted a solution, and 'Teens on Linux' was born.
