FSFE-IE March 2006

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spreading news (lessons from slashdotting the transcripts)
by Ciaran O'Riordan 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

On the night of Saturday 25th, I made a transcript of Stallman's GPLv3 speech from earlier that day, and I put it online: http://www.ifso.ie/documents/rms-gplv3-2006-02-25.html That transcript became the focus of a slashdot story on March 1st: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/28/1442241 (It also got a sidebar mention on Groklaw, and I plugged it in my blog and various forums.) Now I found a news article based on that transcript here: http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5477&Page=1&pagePos=11… (which includes a link to the transcript) And this article also looks like it was made after reading the transcript: http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/03/02/214525/OpensourceGPLchang…'huge'.htm I had already decided that when it was on slashdot I should have submitted a story to community websites such as LWN.net, but now I realise that I also should have notified some mainstream press too. I guess that's another value of transcripts - journalists can easily search them for topical words and find quotable comments. -- Ciarán O'Riordan, _________| Belfast, Northern Ireland, Thursday March 16th http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ | \\ FOSS Means Business // http://www.fsfe.org________| http://foss-means-business.org

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mentions in the news
by Paul O'Malley 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hi, The recording of RMS doing a talk as transcribed by COR has made it to the news on Groklaw. :-) Regards, Paul

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