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0:30 Stephen keeps us waiting by breaking his computer
- Stephen’s distro hopping addiction causes chaos
- Stephen likes Trisquel but couldn’t get it to work seamlessly
- Moral of the story – don’t experiment on a production machine
2:40 Stephen makes the news
- He gets ranting with some racist politicians
- Anti-immigrant rhetoric has lead to outbreaks of violence
- Secure communities gives police stop and search rights for suspected immigrants
6:40 Walton’s updates
- London has many people
- Walton encourages his employers to buy three netbooks instead of one iPad
- It’s an EeePC Seashell series
- Ditched the Windows 7 Starter crippleware and installed Ubuntu using UNetbootin
- Absolutely seamless experience – everything works perfectly
- Not crazy about the Unity desktop – don’t like Gnome 3 either
- Ubuntu gives me innovation fatigue
- Virtual desktops are a great option for netbooks with limited screen space
- Impress your friends with the famous Compiz spinning cube desktop
13:00 We have a guest on the show today – welcome Keir
- Keir lives in Edinburgh – shop steward for a TUC union as well as an IWW member
- Keir maintains the IWW membership system using Free and Open Source Software
- CiviCRM is free Constituent Relationship Management software
- More than a database – it’s a systemic approach to organising
- Stephen discovers he used the same software on the Howard Dean campaign
- Most cutting edge CRM software is by Blue State Digital and Nation Builder
- Very slick, but also expensive and not FOSS
- There are potential privacy issues, so you need to be up front about the data you’re collecting
26:30 Feedback
- Orsan tells us about a campaign by a Turkish metal workers union – can we help?
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