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The EU-funded FLOSSPOLS project is carrying out a survey of participants worldwide. This is a follow-up to the original FLOSS survey in 2002, one of the first and most comprehensive surveys of developers - who they are, how they work and why they do it. The new survey aims to provide an update, include new developers and other participants, and answer some of the questions that were raised by the first one: in particular, on the role of developer communities for learning skills and employment generation, and on the low level of participation by women. Read More

Last week I represented our illustrious desktop environment project at the big Linux Bangalore conference in, well, Bangalore. This pleasant city is located in India's southern state of Karnataka and hosts -- perhaps as a side-effect of it being the computing capital of the nation -- the largest and most active free software community in the country. Read More