Opera recently released a set of succinct educational articles on the foundation of the web, standard technologies and well-written introductions to vital web design topics, aptly titled the Opera Web Standards Curriculum (WSC).
At first I asked myself why something like this was necessary in the year of 2008—don’t students get taught web standards through college […]
Tagged under colour theory, CSS, curriculum, education, HTML, Opera, typography, W3C, web design, web standard, webDev, WSC, XHTML.
In the previous post I hinted that the Tango Desktop Project icon set would be re-licensed into the public domain. The news came through at the start of GUADEC 2008 over the tango-artists mailing list. This somewhat lengthy article should set straight what Tango is, what it’s goals are, some of the hiccups that we’ve […]
Tagged under Bazaar, Creative Commons, dobey, DSFG, free software, GNU, GPL, icons, Jakub Steiner, jimmac, licensing, Olive, public domain, Rodney Dawes, Tango, Tango Desktop Project, tango-icon-theme.
This marks the first journal entry from Istanbul! I’ve been here in Turkey for the past week attending GUADEC, which for the whole part has been a blast. It’s as community-focused as LCA—the largest free software conference in the southern hemisphere—and thus a whole heap of fun.
GUADEC is the premier GNOME conference, held in a different […]
Tagged under Andreas Nilsson, andreasn, community, conference, free software, GNOME, GUADEC, hbons, Hylke Bons, icons, Istanbul, Kalle Persson, kallepersson, licensing, open source, Tango, tango-icon-theme, Turkey.