open-source
When Apache, when not
A Sourcesense colleague, after hearing that some people were questioning the value of Apache as a destination for open source software, asked me to clarify to him when Apache is, and isn't, a good place for your open source code.
Here's what I told him:
Libcloud now has Voxel support
Apache Libcloud now has Voxel support.
Using the code mentioned in the posts Python Dictionary/Object and Python Function/object I had already put together a very lightweight Python client for Voxel's hAPI hosting API, in around 50 lines of code. Therefore, when I came across Libcloud, it was pretty easy to add another provider to their list.
Shindig graduates
And so, another podling graduates. Shindig is now a top level project within the Apache Software Foundation. It has been a delight to work with the Shindig team during incubation, and I wish them luck in their post graduation life.
Membership
Bertrand was kind enough to point me to this recent occurance:
http://ken.coar.org/burrow/index.html?entry=1484
Seems like I've been voted in as a member of the Apache Software Foundation!
What a delight and honour. I look forward to finding out what on earth this means!
Some Debian successes
After much struggle and searching, I found this page: http://www.debianforums.com/ftopic3087.html, which told me exactly what was going on. With it, I gained sound, wifi, and probably firewire too. I still have to, each time the machine boots up, do:
modprobe ieee80211
modprobe ipw2200
ifdown eth0
ifup eth1
before everything is working, but that is small hassle compared to having no wifi at all!
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