Our latest product, FOO29 GNU social button is now available to order.
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 -- Boston, Massachusetts.
Today, FooCorp announced a strategic alliance with OpenHatch to encourage wider adoption of free software and allow greater involvement with FooCorp developments.
"OpenHatch is a great way for free software projects to encourage new developers and raise awareness of ways people can join in and help out" said Matt Lee, chief paradigm officer of FooCorp.
"The aim of OpenHatch is to strengthen free software by making more people aware of how they can participate," explained Asheesh Laroia, co-founder and data seducer at OpenHatch. "On our website, prospective contributors can find easy-to-browse volunteer opportunities in hundreds of free software projects like GNU social, connect with prospective volunteers by placing a friendly "I want to help" button on their websites."
"People always ask us how they can start to get involved with Free Software projects, and Openhatch makes it easier than ever before to just join in." said Rob Myers, FooCorp's principal tactics executive.
About FooCorp
FooCorp is an record label experimenting in free culture publishing, creativity and art. Formed in 1997 by comedy writers, FooCorp has been publishing online for over a decade. In 2005, FooCorp began experimenting with free cultural works with the creation of the CNUK Media Foundation. In 2008, FooCorp began publishing records by free culture artists, and in 2009 spearheaded the development of Libre.fm, a platform to promote and discover new libre musicians. Since early 2010, FooCorp has been working with a team of free software developers and web standards activists to create GNU social, a culturally satisfying alternative to the privacy and autonomy destroying social silos from the likes of Facebook and MySpace.
About OpenHatch
OpenHatch provides tools that promote community and collaboration in free software. With OpenHatch you can search for volunteer opportunities and projects that might interest you, find potential mentors and collaborators in your neighborhood, and document your participation in free software. Naturally, OpenHatch's code is free software.
Today, FooCorp announced a strategic alliance with OpenHatch to encourage wider adoption of free software and allow greater involvement with FooCorp developments.
"OpenHatch is a great way for free software projects to encourage new developers and raise awareness of ways people can join in and help out" said Matt Lee, chief paradigm officer of FooCorp.
"The aim of OpenHatch is to strengthen free software by making more people aware of how they can participate," explained Asheesh Laroia, co-founder and data seducer at OpenHatch. "On our website, prospective contributors can find easy-to-browse volunteer opportunities in hundreds of free software projects like GNU social, connect with prospective volunteers by placing a friendly "I want to help" button on their websites."
"People always ask us how they can start to get involved with Free Software projects, and Openhatch makes it easier than ever before to just join in." said Rob Myers, FooCorp's principal tactics executive.
About FooCorp
FooCorp is an record label experimenting in free culture publishing, creativity and art. Formed in 1997 by comedy writers, FooCorp has been publishing online for over a decade. In 2005, FooCorp began experimenting with free cultural works with the creation of the CNUK Media Foundation. In 2008, FooCorp began publishing records by free culture artists, and in 2009 spearheaded the development of Libre.fm, a platform to promote and discover new libre musicians. Since early 2010, FooCorp has been working with a team of free software developers and web standards activists to create GNU social, a culturally satisfying alternative to the privacy and autonomy destroying social silos from the likes of Facebook and MySpace.
About OpenHatch
OpenHatch provides tools that promote community and collaboration in free software. With OpenHatch you can search for volunteer opportunities and projects that might interest you, find potential mentors and collaborators in your neighborhood, and document your participation in free software. Naturally, OpenHatch's code is free software.
Matt will be speaking at Boston PHP on August 4th about HTML5 and free software, including some of the details of how Libre.fm and GNU social are being built.
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70 Memorial Drive
(Feel free to park in the Hayward street MIT lot)
Cambridge, MA 02139
Rob and I have published our thoughts on Facebook and free social networking, in a post called 'Thoughts on Facebook'
Please write to us at team@foocorp.net with your feedback.
Please write to us at team@foocorp.net with your feedback.
Recorded in free software and hosted by Libre.fm core developer, Mike Sheldon, episode 1 of the Libre.fm podcast is now available.
Recorded in free software and hosted by Libre.fm core developer, Mike Sheldon, episode 1 of the Libre.fm podcast is now available.
The first FooBar event was a huge success! We had over 35 people in attendance over all, and despite my frequent calls of "Can I get you a cheap beer?" we didn't break the bank.
Thanks to everyone who came out, especially on the false promise of a sampler CD that never got made. We plan to have a couple more FooBar events later this year, but we'll be back at LibrePlanet in 2011, with even more cheap pints.
Special thanks must go to our good friend James Savage at J.J Foleys who handled the crowd spectacularly all night.
If you have any pictures (less incriminating ones, ideally) please send them over to team@foocorp.net and we'll eventually post them up here, or use them as blackmail material for the next bar tab.
Okay, it's been a while coming, but we're finally making it happen.
This Friday, in Boston, MA.
Come have a drink with Matt Lee and Rob Myers, as well as a host of star guests.
Check the FooBar mini-site/webpage/folder for more details.
This Friday, in Boston, MA.
Come have a drink with Matt Lee and Rob Myers, as well as a host of star guests.
Check the FooBar mini-site/webpage/folder for more details.
You may depend, that those odious Miscreants and destestable Tools to Ministry and Governor, Matt Lee, Rob Myers, Chloe Phillips, Mark Cousens, and Liam Smith, (those Traitors to their Country, Butchers, who have done, and are doing every Thing to make funny and free all that shall stand in the Way of their private Interest,) are determined to come and reside again in the Town of Boston (and in the Towns of Exeter, Totnes, Norwich and Peterborough)
I therefore give you this early Notice, that you may hold yourselves in Readiness, on the shortest Notice, to give them such a Reception as such vile Ingrates deserve.
Chairman of the Committee for Tarring and Feathering
☞ If any Person should be so hardy as to Tear this down, they may expect my severest Resentment.
It has come to the attention of the committee that certain providers of electronic mail services to Ministry and Governor have err'd and forcibly removed, without due course, Mark Stephenson, that most detestable of Plymouthians from previous notices in relation to the creation of the Foo Corporation, of Totnes, England.
Let all records show that Mr Stephenson shall not go unnamed, nor shall he be treated any differently because of the manner of his exclusion.