Patents: Weeks 3 & 4 — hiatus until Nick replaced
I just wanted to give people a quick heads up that I haven’t given up on blogging about my Patents course this semester. As I mentioned in the last post, Nick decided to leave the Lawcast and OSP on...
View ArticleWhat should I do this summer?
Behind the scenes, a lot has been going on in the OSP-world recently; some good, some bad. A couple of months ago, of course, lnxwalt decided to help out with writing duties. That’s great news. The...
View ArticleCybercrime 0: Road Map
I’ve thought a lot about what content to bring you this semester. I had said I would discuss Info and Data Privacy Law, but I decided not to take that course. My courses this semester are as follows:...
View ArticleMoving to a Monthly Format for March (and April)
Sometimes you just need to get away for things to start making sense. This week we are on “winter break” (what the rest of the country calls spring break, but to our credit, it is technically still...
View ArticleLooking Ahead
I didn’t want another “meta” post, but I was writing this in another post and it just didn’t seem like it made sense to keep it in that post. Back before I decided to go monthly on the blog for March...
View ArticleRoadmap for OSP’s Summer
This w --> This week begins my summer OSP series. Usually the articles will come out on Thursdays, but obviously if you’re using an RSS reader you’ll just get the articles when they come out. I’ve...
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Cross-post of interview with Josiah of the Netizen Empowerment Federation
Much of what happens over at the Music Manumit Lawcast in regards to copyright law is applicable to the copyright of software that is fundamental to the free software movement. We don’t cross-post...
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OSP, come September
OpenSourcePlayground.org (OSP) has seen a lot of eras over the years. There was the pre-Wendy and post-Wendy Wisconsin eras, and then the various eras while I’ve been in law school. In September...
View ArticleLNXWALT’s Blogs & Audiocasts Intake
This self-revelation piece is sort of a reply to Doug’s recent piece. I used to have a huge set of blogs that I tracked in Google Reader. I say I tracked them, but my backlog was hundreds of items,...
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Is a NEF/OSP book on the way?
Well, the easy answer is “not yet.” Mike came up with the idea. Verbatim, here’s the idea: A 200 or 300 page ‘book’ : for example: “The NEF guide to the Internet” (or, everything you...
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What’s the best way to reach new users?
I’ve been planning to ask this question on the blog for a while, due to my mailbag series, but the recent switch on identi.ca from StatusNet software to pumpio software (and don’t worry, eventually...
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Public Fundraising Brainstorming
I wrote last month about some of the upcoming transitions at OSP. A month on, there’s a very good chance OSP will have an irregular schedule for the next three years. That is, unless we can generate...
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OSP’s Transition Nears
Back in July, I wrote a bit about the upcoming transition at OSP. As the transition nears, I wish I could say I had looked at my course syllabi and that I had a plan of action for how the semester...
View ArticleThe Rest of this Semester, Next Semester, and Beyond
Well, it’s the same title I gave over at Sportazine, but it’s not the same content. Presumably, no one cares about TINT or Sports Law here. The Rest of the Semester I have mentioned this before on the...
View ArticlePatent Claiming 1: Potential Topics?
I’ve received no feedback on my proposed patent claiming series, other than Walt’s initial suggestion that I continue the project, so I wanted to propose some potential topics for people to pick. Some...
View ArticleMigration, New Podcast and Hiatus
Migration We are currently migrating away from Dreamhost to save money. There may be some down time in the future. We will try to keep you posted as details become available. New Podcast We may have a...
View Article[Meta] Moving The Furniture … Soon
There were some transitional things that happened during our recent move from Dreamhost to the present hosting. Primary among those was adding a new subdomain (ospblog). Originally, this was so that...
View Article[META] Open Source Playground Now Has A Wiki!
Yes. OSP Wiki is live. There is not much there yet, but it was more important to get started than to perfect it before announcing its existence. We’re using Dokuwiki, which is a simple, easy-to-use...
View Article[META] Tiny Tiny RSS (TT-RSS) Now Live
This and the wiki happened a while back, but were never announced. We’ve got a TT-RSS instance at http://news.opensourceplayground.org/ As always, they are subject to change or removal at any time.
View Article[Meta] Looking Forward, Edition 2014-10
Do you ever start doing something, then say “this could be much more if …”? I recently did this. “This” in this case is a couple of projects: OSP and Federati Networks. Federati will be getting its own...
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