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Simon Phipps Stefano Zacchiroli

Could be fixed at a stroke by banning "rcweir" as far as I can tell

Simon Phipps

Red Hat to ditch MySQL for MariaDB in RHEL 7: wmk.me/17O6Caw

Simon Phipps

My slides from ORG Sheffield are at http://ur1.ca/eamgf (so the NSA can easily review them)

Simon Phipps

Is the White House anti-troll initiative really an excuse not to address the deeper problem of anti-competitive use? wmk.me/19cDXwj

Simon Phipps Simon Phipps

Sorry, was mixing Drupal and Mumble beams. Sounds plausible superficially, but the solution they used needed no set-up at all & so no geek.

Simon Phipps johns

I believe there's more than one path to that goal.

Simon Phipps Electronic Frontier Foundation , johns

From what I know of @eff they probably need congratulating for the good rather than educating about the bad in this instance :-)

Simon Phipps Christopher Allan Webber

That looks promising, although it needs quite an investment of time by the organiser to get it installed.

Simon Phipps johns

I've had to organise these things in the past; I found no satisfying answers apart from not holding the event. I doubt that's changed.

Simon Phipps johns

No. The participants are working at a higher level and need supporting at that level.

Simon Phipps johns

For a webcast, there has to be exactly zero set-up for the audience or there will be none. Roll on JavaScript video clients...

Simon Phipps

I've a hunch if their audience had to set that up first they would have had zero viewers...

Simon Phipps johns

Last time I looked that needed lots of set-up for participants & a client for everyone - has it got better?

Simon Phipps johns

What technology are you proposing, John? I know several who would like something as easy as Hangouts-On-Air but with FOSS.

Hugo Roy Evan Prodromou

@evan good luck with the pump.io transition today! \o/ I'm looking forward do it

Simon Phipps

@schestowitz You'll be interested in wmk.me/11tsYVX too.

Simon Phipps Dr. Roy Schestowitz

I'll certainly be there :-)

Simon Phipps

My update on why Google's VP8 codec license is OK after all http://shar.es/wg0t1 via @infoworld

Simon Phipps

FM is indeed the person you are identifying, yes - laid the "OSI Pres" thing on really heavily to try to create a stink