Jonas Öberg

I just got the word: the FFKP has gotten the funding required to start off our second Creative Commons project. This is great news, since the project works very well together with our other initiative to increase the collaboration between the Nordic countries. The new project, which will run from the 1st of September 2010 to the 30th of June 2011, will aim to bring Creative Commons to artists, writers and musicians in Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and the Faroe Islands.

This is what mine and Henriks office looked like when we moved into it, just as we were getting started with work on the SELF project:

After some time, the house gods blessed us with some additional furniture:

This is what our office looks like during an FSCONS (this was taken in
2008):

This is the reason why during FSCONS 2010, we MUST GET RID OF ALL OLD T-SHIRTS! Please help us! When you register for FSCONS (registration system will be up in a couple of weeks), please place your order for an FSCONS 2007/2008 or 2009 years t-shirt, and help us clear our space :-)

Where did things go wrong? In programming, a lot of the time, things went sour roughly around the place where you made the last change. If a program you're developing suddenly, for no apparent reason, breaks down, you can always look towards the last place where you changed something and trace your problems from there.

This week I had the opportunity to listen to a panel debate on the EU proposal about censorship of child pornography on the Internet. Rikard has written extensively on the debate already (in Swedish), and I can definitely recommend reading it. My own reflections can perhaps be summarised in that the question is indeed a complex one.

As most non-profits, the Society for Free Culture and Software, as well as me personally for projects I would like to engage in, are always struggling to find money. Quite often, we make do with quite limited means: some money for someones trip here, a hotel night there, some printing material, or so on. I don't count time here, because while we all spend a considerable amount of time on various projects, it's not something which is regularly funded.

I tried to login to a web site today. It's the kind of site which I rarely visit, but I still keep my account there for the times when I do come around. Actually, when I think about it, I'm not even sure if I could delete my account even if I wanted to. As always happened, I had forgotten my password. In order to reset my password, the site asked me to verify who I was by typing in the name of my elementary school.

This is completely unsecure!

The name of my elementary school is pretty much public information. Anyone can find that out with very little effort.

The latest book I purchased is "Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming" by Peter Seibel. The book offers interviews with some well known, and other less well known, programmers. Jamie Zawinski, Douglas Crockford, Joe Armstrong, Guy Steele, L Peter Deutsch and Donald Knuth are some of the names in the book, but it's unclear to me exactly how Peter selected the programmers in question for the interviews.

För ungefär ett år sedan startade jag tjänsten @kollektivt, ett sätt för människor att direkt ge feedback till exempelvis Västtrafik, när något händer där ute i trafiken. Som ett alternativ till att vänta tills man är hemma innan man skickar sina kommentarer. Det här var delvis en reaktion från min sida på att buss 30 kom väldigt oregelbundet, men också över att biljettsystemet som man nyss hade infört hade stora brister. Och har det fortfarande.

I fredags förra veckan var jag på konferensen Öppna Ekosystem 2010 i Skövde. Konferensen organiserades av Björn Lundell, som många känner till för hans arbete med öppen källkod i Sverige. Inom konferensen samlades tre grupper: leverantörer, utvecklare och användare, och det är dessas interaktioner och samarbeten med varandra som Björn avser med det öppna ekosystemet.

Mötespresidiet förklarar härmed Piratpartiets årsmöte 2010 för avslutat!