The Screening Room
One of the great joys of open source is that it can unite geographically dispersed people to work together on software and other projects. This often happens asynchronously, via email and other tools. However, sometimes there are real benefits to having a live meeting. When that happens, keeping track of people’s availability in different time zones becomes a challenge.
Thankfully, a challenge no more. “Meeting for Good” is new open source software that solves that problem. Check out the overview video and then give it a try.
Be sure to tell your open source friends in other countries about this resource. Then go and build something that has never been built before.
For the past 10 years, Phil has been working at a public library in the Washington D.C.-area, helping youth and adults use the 28 public Linux stations the library offers seven days a week. He also writes for MAKE magazine, Opensource.com and TechSoup Libraries. Suggest videos by contacting Phil on Twitter or at pshapiro@his.com.
With havin so much content and articles do you ever run into any
problems of plagorism or copyright violation? My site
has a lot of unique content I’ve either authored myself or outsourced but it seems a
lot of it is popping it up all over the internet without
my authorization. Do you know any ways to help protect against content
from being stolen? I’d certainly appreciate it.
@wedding cakes, First of all, your “content” isn’t being stolen… it’s being copied, you still have the original.
If you believe your “content” requires your authorisation then, it is still not being stolen. If your person copying it attributes it to themselves, and not you then it is being Plagerised, but it still hasn’t been stolen, as you still have the original.
If they copy it, but don’t aske your permission, they still haven’t stolen it, they are merely in Breach of Copyright.
If anybody copying your “content” also provides links to your site, then they are driving viewers to your site, and for that the person copying your content should be thanked, not threatened.