Minneapolis #1 cycling city

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The May edition of Bicycling Magazine named Minneapolis America’s best city for biking. The city still trails Portland, Oregon in the percentage of commuters who bike to work (4.3 percent to 5.9 percent, respectively, according to the most recent American Community Survey), but Minneapolis has been gaining momentum.

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John Motobo, phoning it in

I am John Motobo the son of the late Minister of Tourism in Liberia, 19 years of age i have my diplomat in your country with my boxes containing $25,000.000.00 i have paid for the delivery charges which is $8,500 and i will give you 35% if you help me contact the diplomat so he can deliver to you.
I will want you to give me your direct telephone number.

If you’re interested contact him at:

patricia@satlan.com OR johnmotobo12@live.com

These Nigerian 419 scammers are just lazy now a days, aren’t they? Seriously, it’s like they’re not even trying anymore. What happened to the elaborate eloquently written short stories that involved the international space station. This is just crap. They’re really phoning it in these days.

Run Tara Run!!

Tara is running the San Diego Rock & Roll Marathon again in a couple weeks (Sunday June 6). We’ve arranged a baby sitter so I can bike along the route (not the actual route mind you) and cheer her on.  I’ve now designed and ordered my riding shirt.

Run Tara Run!! Feel free to order your own. I make it available without markup. 😉

Scraperbike

“In order to become a member of the Original Scraper Bike Team, you must: Be a resident of Oakland, CA. Be at least 7y/o or older. Retain A 3.0 Grade Point Average (GPA), Create your own Scraper Bike…(It Has To Be Amazing, Or Else You Can’t Ride.) A single-file line when riding. After 10 rides The Scraper Bike King and his Captains will decide if your bike is up to standards and if you can follow simple guidelines. After your evaluation we will consider you a member and honor you with an Original Scraper Bike Team Shirt. Only worn when Mobbin’ Stay posted to our website for all upcoming Scraper Bike Rides…” — The Scraper Bike King

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Scrapertown from California is a place. on Vimeo.

OpenSource.com and Openwashing

Today I was flattered by an interview at OpenSource.com the Red Hat community news site.

OpenSource.com Interview

One misguided fellow made the following comment about MindTouch:

That thing is not open source at all. On their site it says: “Software License: Shared Source”. As far as I know, that is code name for Microsoft quasi-open source licenses which are in conflict with section 6 (and some with 10 also) of open source definition.

What else to expect from ex-Microsofties…. openwashing.

I tried posting a comment, but Mollum is configured to disallow comments that trip it’s spam filter and I couldn’t.

Spam So, here’s the response I was trying to post in reply to the above comment titled “Openwashing”.

Open washing? 🙂

MindTouch Core is released under GPL v2 but some components (MindTouch Dream) are released under Apache. Download here (Core is GPL2 and free). I write about Open Core here, which links to several other posts on the topic.

The gist is, you can think of MindTouch Core as an up-stack app server that is specialized in collaboration. MindTouch 2009/2010 is a commercial product built atop MindTouch Core. MindTouch 2009/2010 is designed to be the killer app for strategic (product and service) documentation.

I’m confident most, if not all readers, readers at OpenSource.com have used MindTouch before. For example, the Mozilla Developer Network is powered by MindTouch. There are many other documentation bases that are powered by MindTouch including those for Zmanda, Fonality, RightScale, Intel, Microsoft, Intuit, ExactTarget, AutoDesk, EMC and many others.

Anyway, GPL v2 and Apache…not open washing. 🙂

Perhaps someone at OpenSource.com can help me post this comment.