How NOT to conduct yourself online

Many of you know that I am the project leader of an open source worship presentation program called OpenLP. Yesterday evening, as I was doing something on OpenLP's project page on SourceForge.net (a popular repository for open source projects), I glanced at the reviews page and the one below caught my eye.

RE: Ubuntu Loco Games 2013

The newly-approved Ubuntu Mexico LoCo has decided to celebrate their status as an official LoCo by hosting an online gaming event. They will be hosting matches for AssaultCube, Urban Terror and Battle for Wesnoth on the 9th of Feb from 17:00 SAST (9:00 CST) to midnight (16:00 CST) on the 10th of Feb. They have 2 LoCo's signed up so far, so why don't you get together and add yours!

Ubuntu-ZA LoCo re-approved for another 2 years

Congratulations to all my fellow members of Ubuntu-ZA, thanks to all our hard work we have been approved for another 2 years. This means that Ubuntu-ZA is still an official LoCo.

Running PyLint in PyCharm

At work we use PyCharm for all our Python development. It's a good IDE with great code completion, and decent support for most Python libraries, good unit testing support and good Google App Engine integration. We also use PyLint for checking our code and trying to keep our coding standards up.

Successful Ubuntu Hour in Cape Town held on the 11th of February

I should have blogged a while ago about this, but didn't get around to it till now...

I decided a few months ago that I wanted to have an Ubuntu hour in Cape Town, as most of them happen out in Stellenbosch, and I don't really get the time to drive out there. In true open source style, if you want something done you need to do it yourself (not in a negative sense though, it's more like a self-help style thing), so I started organising it.

The True Cost of Open Source

This afternoon I came across a blog post entitled The True Cost of Open Source, in which the blogger tries to dissuade churches from using open source solutions, and thereby promote their own proprietary CMS.

I commented on their blog post, but I don't know if they'll post it, because I show them up for what they really seem to be doing. So with this in mind, I've posted my full, unedited reply below:

Building an Ubuntu or Kubuntu Natty Package for Choqok 1.1

Choqok seems to be about the only native microblogging client for KDE. It's actually a rather nice app, but I've found it to be rather buggy when it comes to Twitter authentication. For the last few months it has moaned about not being able to authenticate, after which it crashes. Starting the app again does the same thing, which means it crashes constantly, and you're left without a Twitter client.

Migrating Drupal forums to Vanilla

One of the complaints I've heard fairly often from users of OpenLP is that our forums lack somewhat in usability and features. With this in mind, as part of the OpenLP 2.0 release, I wanted to see if I can move the forums over to some alternative forum software. However, I have a few important prerequisites:

First Impressions of the Nokia N900 - Part 2

Unfortunately I was quite pressed for time when I wrote my blog entry the other day, so I wasn't able to say everything I wanted to. I have a bit more time today, so I thought I'd write up a few things I didn't get to say then.

Firstly, after using Quassel for a little, I wanted to make the interface a little less crowded. So what I did was to remove some GUI elements like the status bar, and reduce the font size. Here's what Quassel looks like now:

First Impressions of the Nokia N900

A few weeks ago I finally bought myself a Nokia N900. I saw it a while ago in the news, and as soon as I heard that there was going to be a phone with a proper Linux distribution (as opposed to Android which is basically Google's JVM sitting sort-of directly on the kernel), I wanted to get that phone. Not only that, but the phone's features were also pretty darn convincing.

For those who don't know know the phone's specs, here's a brief run-down:

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