I made it to the frontpage of the Computerworld magazine. I'm the the fat one in front, wearing a black suit, the other guys at the PHPUG booth are Gassi, Joschua and Chregu, I guess.
Neither me nor the PHP Usergroup is mentioned in the -very positive- article on LOTS, but who cares. :)
Our PHP5 presentation went pretty well, we had about 65 attendees of around 500.

You might already know magnatune, but the discovering it today really made my day.
"Founded by musicians, for musicians", the label is selling online using a "try before you buy" approach they call "the shareware model applied to music".
I guess my first purchase will be Vito Paternoster's recording of the Bach cello suites, an long-time favourite of mine. I'm amazed each time I hear a new interpretation.

Apropos downloading music: Everybody is downloading the Grey Album right now.. even though it's not that amazing at all, IMHO. But great marketing for a next album, of course.

The Zeit does not online rely on XML and Weblogs, they also have an open source content management system that looks quite reasonable. It's based on Webdav/Zope/Quark and, of course, XML/XSL.
You can check out the code from their CVS repository.
I keep liking what they do. Ah, by the way, they're looking for XML/XSL/Python/Perl/PHP folks..

I'm going to talk on PHP5 at LOTS.

Über 100 Videos, die erstmals einen umfassenden Überblick über die interaktiv-immersive, telematische und genetische Kunst bieten, sind heute zur Datenbank für Virtuelle Kunst hinzugeschaltet worden.

Interesting project, probably quite similar to what we do ourselves.. just a bit bigger, both in technology and in content.. :)

DENG, an XML/CSS2 browser supporting subsets of CSS2, CSS3 Namespaces, XHTML, XForms, XFrames and SVGhas been released under the GPL today. It's written entirely in OO-Flash ActionScript(!).
Now let's see how large those subsets are.. get it from SourceForge

Fellow computer science student, yoga teacher and mad neuroscientist Martin Rumo opened his website to the rest of us.
You find stuff like this:
That's "a 1-D neural field doing a bifurcation". Right.
Cool guy. You'll hear of him again.

Still under construction, but might become pretty useful one day: The "Swiss FOSS directory" by LOTS, the Open Systems Usergroup and UNISG.

I guess "FOSS" is bit of strange term. First of all it blurs the line between free and open-source software, and, even worse, sounds just like "fosse" / "fossé"[1]..
I guess "F/OSS" would be but slightly better, "libre software" is bad too.. Isn't it kind of a bad sign that nobody has yet found a striking name for that idea? Just cold and unpronounceable acronyms?

Well, studying both computer science and communication sociology doesn't help me to find something better, sorry.. but I keep on thinking. :)


[1] German: Strassengraben, English: ditch (!)

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Thinner is a German electronic music netlabel that distributes free MP3 files since 2001. They use a Creative Commons license
Some fairly enjoyable stuff indeed.

Bloggers:

You are all pretentious twats!
You make up irritating jargon for the sake of it!
All of your blogs talk about the same crap!

Right. At least 'we' do not have to feel that grouchy ;)