Making paper. There is absolutely nothing digital about it. I don't even know if it's possible to run handmade paper through a printer. Stumbled across this gorgeous paper website today. I don't even know how, or why I ended up down that rabbit hole. I think it may even have been an advert.

A list apart's annual survey for people who make websites asks how long ago you created your first personal website or blog.

I created my first personal website in 1995 - and my first 'blog' in 2002.

I found some old posts in the wayback machine. May try to re-assemble some of those broken digital fossils. Probably when I'm meant to be doing something else ;)

Registrations are open for linux.conf.au 2011 and the Open Source Developers Conference 2010 and I'm speaking at both about Inkscape.

OSDC 2010 will be held at The Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne on the 24-26 November.
http://2010.osdc.com.au/proposal/29/inkscape-free-your-vectors

Software Freedom Day

I rely on free software. My business, Creative Contingencies, totally depends on free software, and we earn income from supporting others using free software. I'm not a coder so finding other ways to participate in the community that creates free software and make a contribution is important to me. 

Voting is open to elect the new committee of Linux Users of Victoria.

Members may vote online at http://members.luv.asn.au/

This is the 2nd post in my Elections series.

"It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future."

Clay Shirky

This morning Twitter suggested I follow Clay Shirky. And I did. And I read his blog post on the collapse of complex business models, which ends with that quote.

There's an election on.  Actually there's three elections on.

1. Federal election.
2. State election.
3. Linux Users of Victoria Committee election.

But this post is about the first one.

The call for participation for linux.conf.au 2011 in Brisbane from January 24-29 is open, so I submitted a proposal to run a 1.5 hr Inkscape Tutorial. Here's the abstract I provided.