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Monthly Archives: May 2005

Dropcash News

Dropcash News
An interesting idea, but I would really think that a separate money raiser for Open Source project bounties should be set up, propably with a cooperation of some existing eMoney provider, like moneybookers.com and it surely must provide lots of way to pay for a [...]

Antipatent work

Today I started to work more actively for the FFII to counter the EU software patents directive. I am bringing SMEs in for the .economic-majority.com site and to Brussels to meet with MEPs. It seams that there are many SMEs interested in that kind of action in Latvia.
Also fixed two bugs and added one feature [...]

Lack of concentration

Today I noticed that last three days I’ve lingered aroung and have done allmost nothing. I mean - I made found some bugs in TikiWiki, filed them, got CVS access, did some more debugging in the stable CVS version, but I just couldn’t quite nail the bug and finish it. Also, I’ve not done much [...]

Git Traffic #1 For 2 May

Git Traffic #1 For 2 May
Linus Torvalds said: Did I already happen to mention that I think that the git model is the best model ever, and that I’m just not an incredibly good-looking hunk and becomingly modest, I’m smart too?Davide Libenzi replied, You forgot, *again*, to [...]

You need more then one wheel for the bandwagon to start rolling

This is an English summary of my Latvian rant about the activities (or lack thereof) of the Latvian Open Source Association (LAKA) in my other blog. Before someone misunderstands, I am the chairman of the LAKA’s board, so this is not a plain ranting, but more of a plan pondering for future action.For two years [...]

Getting fit

Thanks to a contest on a local photo site, I got a free day at a fitness center. I actually did not expect to win it, so I only logged in to the site at 19:00 at the day. Imagine my disappointment when I read the message saying “You won a free pass to our [...]