Updated April 28, 2008 @ 2:04 am
I wanted to send a big thank you out to The Fedora Project, Max Spevack and Greg DeKoenigsberg for their support of the upcoming Libre Graphics Meeting 2008 in Poland, May 8 – 11!
Dave Neary wrote a good overview of the state of the massively successful fundraiser we put together with Pledgie.com (try it out if you want to raise money for your cause!).
It is still not too late to donate money (you can use paypal with the previous link 
which will help get more developers to the event. Cheers to all who gave too and linked to the various posts thus truly shedding light onto the huge community of free and open source graphics users and developers out there in the world 
Updated April 20, 2008 @ 1:25 am
There are many reasons why I am spending half of my time in China now including:
- My wife and her family are from China (Guangzhou specifically)
- Community and Business Development opportunities for Creative Commons and Open Source in Asia, China in particular
- The contemporary art and web startup scene is exploding in China
- China has the most number (>210 M) of people online and the longest overall average time spent online: “Chinese Internet users log an average of 2 billion hours online each week, while the figure for US Internet users stands at 129 million.”
- The dollar, pound and euro still stretches further here, at least for the next few years
And, CEO Ito (ok, just Joi, no longer Chairman Ito just posted a nice chart showing approximate growth of GDP where China will eclipse the US in approximately 2030. Diversify your investment friends and push hard on reforms in china on the evironment and lowering the transaction cost on several economic barriers and IMO, decreasing the number of dropped and/or reset packets on the internet. Finally, the GFW needs to be turned off. Imagine 210M+ internet users all fittting through a huge (tiny) bottleneck of filters…it is a horrible barrier to efficient business transactions.
Lu is about to post some interesting things about the anti-CNN movement coming out of China post-bad-Western-press cropping.
Updated April 18, 2008 @ 7:56 pm
