Episode 0x30: GNOME Press Comments

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x30_GNOME.ogg"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_ogg_button.png"/></a> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x30_GNOME.mp3"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in MP3 format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_mp3_button.png"/></a> </p> <p> <p>Karen and Bradley discuss recent coverage of GNOME by the technology press, and more generally issues and concerns with the technology press.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:44)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley couldn't find support for his claim about <q>in the can</q>, and Karen may be right.(01:15)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that the GNOME Foundation negative press recently is akin to what <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/31/harry-reid-romney-taxes_n_1724027.html">Harry Reid did by stating rumors regarding Romney's taxes</a>. (05:03)</li> <li>Karen mentioned the <a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/Debunking-Handbook-Part-1-first-myth-about-debunking.html"><cite>Debunking Handbook</cite></a> that <a href="http://calcifer.org/">Germ&aacute;n P&oacute;o-Caama&ntilde;o</a> mentioned to her. (06:30)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the quote <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk"><q>I do not think [that word] means what you think it means</q></a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Bride_(film)"><cite>The Princess Bride</cite></a>. (13:30)</li> <li>Karen mentioned the <a href="http://www.happybirthdaygnome.org/">GNOME 15 year Anniversary Site</a>. (17:22)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned <a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2010/07/28/gnome-census/">Dave Neary's GNOME census</a>, and quoted numbers from the census. (21:30)</li> <li>Bradley discussed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eazel">Eazel</a>, a company co-founded by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Hertzfeld">Andy Hertzfeld</a>. (23:03)</li> <li>Karen mentioned GNOME's <a href="https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2012">Outreach Program for Women</a>, in which <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2012/mar/27/outreach/">Conservancy participates</a>. (25:34)</li> <li>Karen mentioned <a href="http://www.datamation.com/open-source/is-gnome-still-needed-1.html">an article that came out</a> on the same day as this audcast. (30:30)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that some research by evolutionary biologists suggests <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language#The_gossip_and_grooming_hypothesis">language may have developed for gossip</a> (38:48). Bradley couldn't find evidence easily online for the 80% is gossip claim on the audcase, but did find an article <a href="http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr06/bonding.aspx">talking about 65% of human communication is gossip</a>.</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the television series, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Animal_(TV_series)"><cite>The Human Animal</cite></a>. (39:17)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned a <a href="http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2012-August/078276.html">thread he recently posted in on the BusyBox mailing list</a>. (50:32)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that there are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases">many cognitive psychological biases</a>. (51:11)</li> </ul> <hr width="80%"/> <p>Send feedback and comments on the cast to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a>. You can keep in touch with <a href="https://faif.us">Free as in Freedom</a> on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by <a href="http://identi.ca/conservancy">following Conservancy on identi.ca</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/conservancy">and Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Free as in Freedom is produced by <a href="http://danlynch.org/blog/">Dan Lynch</a> of <a href="http://danlynch.org/">danlynch.org</a>. Theme music written and performed by <a href="http://www.miketarantino.com">Mike Tarantino</a> with <a href="http://www.charliepaxson.com">Charlie Paxson</a> on drums.</p> <p><a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" hspace=10 /></a> The content of <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound" rel="dc:type">this audcast</span>, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a>. </p>