Friday 19 December 2008

Australian Bureau of Statisics moves to Creative Commons License

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is poised to introduce Creative Commons [Attribution] licensing for the bulk of the [ABS] content ...
Read the rest of the story here.

This is inline with a national trend to move toward Creative Commons, being spearheaded by Queensland University of Technology. (old presentation here).

Thursday 4 December 2008

Name dropping ...


I managed to chat with one of my hero's today, Larry Wall, Godfather of Perl. He was speaking at the Open Source Developer Conference here in Sydney about Perl 6.
Jody Garnett kindly captured the moment on film.