Very long-term backup fabbed with a reprap ?
How will your personal data be readable 2.000 years from now ? The Long Now Foundation blogs about a nickel-based 3 inches-large disk that can reliably hold high amount of printed data for at least...
View ArticleWhat should be the EU ICT R&D policy ? Tell them
A nice article and hopefully useful survey (runs until 7 November 2008) that will let you have your say on what the EU policy should be regarding Information and Communication Technology R&D.
View ArticleHelp me earn 60.000 USD for wecena
Wecena services are my new social venture. The US-based Echoing Green non-profit organization helps social entrepreneurs with a 2 years fellowship program and seed grants including 60 000 USD for the...
View ArticleWhat is the underlying cause of the problem wecena is trying to solve ?
[This post is part of my draft application process to the Echoing Green (EG) fellowship program. You can help me earn 60.000 US dollars for the take-off of wecena.] EG 2nd pre-application question:...
View ArticleWhat will the wecena community look like when we’ve solved the problem?
[This post is the 3rd part of my draft application process to the Echoing Green (EG) fellowship program. You can help me earn 60.000 US dollars for the take-off of wecena by commenting this post with...
View ArticleWhat’s the logic of our wecena idea?
[This post is the 4th part of my preparatory work before applying to the Echoing Green (EG) fellowship program. You can help me earn 60.000 US dollars for the take-off of wecena by commenting this post...
View ArticleHow others have tried to solve the issue wecena services are to solve?
[This post is the 5th part of my preparatory work before applying to the Echoing Green (EG) fellowship program. You can help me earn 60.000 US dollars for the take-off of wecena by commenting this post...
View ArticleWhy you may (not) disagree with my wecena solution
[This post is the 6th part of my preparatory work before applying to the Echoing Green (EG) fellowship program. You can help me earn 60.000 US dollars for the take-off of wecena by commenting this post...
View ArticleApplying to the Echoing Green fellowship program
[This post is the draft of my application to the Echoing Green (EG) fellowship program. You can help me earn 60.000 US dollars for the take-off of wecena by commenting this post with suggestions about...
View ArticleEchoing Green fellowship program : we did not make it :-(
Disappointment… Our application to the Echoing Green fellowship program is no more in the race : it “did not advance in the application process” and was rated as “noncompetitive” (see their full email...
View ArticleAltruistic Capital, semifinalist of Echoing Green 2009
Albeit disappointed, I enjoyed the results of the 1st selection phase of the 2009 Echoing Green fellowship program. Of course, it had some positive consequences on my venture. But the most positive...
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Dilbert est en intercontrat !
Dilbert n’a plus de projet actuellement, crise oblige. Scott Adams va-t-il lui faire faire du wecena ?
View ArticleHow to get visual performance profiles from plone doctests ?
I am developping a couple of Plone 3.x products. They have some tests, including a huge functional doctest which takes a long time to run (about a couple of hours !) but covers some of my most...
View ArticleAltruistic stock options
As far as I understand the concept of “altruistic capital“, the firm practicing altruistic capital donates a percentage of its capital to a nonprofit organization and commits to keeping on donating...
View ArticleHow to record VoIP calls from your PC ?
Beyond having low and flat rates, beyond allowing mobility without a mobile phone, voice-over-IP has another advantage : it allows calls to be recorded. Here is how to proceed (assuming you are geeky...
View ArticleMobile health applications for Africa
My friends at Pesinet are building a mobile health technology and system which will save the life of thousands of babies in poor countries such as Mali, in Africa. It happens that I identified several...
View ArticleThe “social horror stories” prize
“Technologie et Innovation Sociale” is a French initiative which aims at having more technology-based solutions available to solve major social issues. It’s a would-be incubator for hightech social...
View ArticleSVG as an alternative to Flash, here comes bliotux
As a follow-up to my SMIL-animated SVG for accessible textbooks article, here is a copy of the README file of wecena.bliotux. I currently have 4 full-time wecena volunteers currently making accessible...
View ArticleFree money
Not “free money” as in “free beer” but free as in “free speech”. I mean “Libre money”, like “Libre software”. Money made free. Goods made free so that they make people freer. What could this mean ?...
View ArticleThe Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team had a conf call
… today. And here is the recording of the audio (OGG format). Unfortunately, it is missing 3 or 4 minutes at the beginning (I had to realize nobody else was to record the call and launch a few pieces...
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