December 2010 Archives

As 2011 comes hurtling towards us with its inevitablity, it’s fun to look back at 2010 and see some of the stuff we’ve done.

In 2010, not only did we finally get ourselves together and finally incorporate, we also got our first bunch of paying customers. We now have seven FooVCs — if you’d like to join this illustrious bunch of the free world’s elite, and get yourself a funky little FooPlug in exchange, now is a great time to do so.

If $300 is a bit much for you at this time of year, we’ve also got some other bundles to tout our wares…

Kicking around the Foo warehouse are some CD-R copies of the furny EP, more mature escapades in hi-fidelity. Get one of these, plus some buttons… and we’ll knock some money off the price:

I would like….

4 buttons/furny CD-R $12.00 10 buttons/furny CD-R $15.00 100 buttons/furny CD+artwork/case $100.00

Foo Projects

2011 sees a change of direction of us: as you hopefully will know, we’re not a software company, but an entertainment company: so, to make this distinction clearer, we’re moving all of our software and other community efforts to their own website: http://foocorp.org/ — we call these things ‘Foo Projects’, and our goal is to take new projects we work on, and eventually move them to being community projects. We will continue to support all community projects, with company resources, but putting them in the direction of the community of developers and artists who work on them.

Foo Projects will also have its own blog. Over there, we’re just publishing the latest news on GNU social and GNU FM…

At your nearest convenience please head to http://daisycha.in on the World Wide Web and after reading and digesting our good mantras and diatribes on the evils of Facebook and the like, consider signing up for your own account.

There most certainly will be bugs, and right now you can’t even sign in after you sign up.

• There is a privacy policy and a terms and conditions… if you can’t click to see them when you sign up, please let us know, and we’ll give you a chance to slowly back away after reading them if you don’t like what you read — no hard feelings.

• They’re very similar to the Terms and Privacy Policies found here: http://identi.ca/doc/tos and http://identi.ca/doc/privacy but we’re also not logging IP addresses again (same deal applies to Libre.fm, if you’re wondering…)

But: due to an unfortunate link by someone we no longer want to have anything to do with, ever, we’ve been forced to launch now, a few hours ahead of schedule. Minus a support forum, which we’d hoped would be a cool feature, but hey ho… if you have any suggestions for free software sites like Get Satisfaction or Stack Overflow, please send them our way…

As ever, we are here to help and serve you, so please send questions and feedback our way and we’ll do our best to get back to you admit all the screaming hordes of fans this new website will surely not bring us.

Into the future!

Your pals, - Rob and Matt

PS. We took this off our website a while ago. Maybe time to put it back?

It’s my belief that history is a wheel. “Inconsistency is my very essence,” says the wheel. “Rise up on my spokes if you like but don’t complain when you’re cast back down into the depths. Good time pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it’s also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, are always passing away.”