http://www.stuermer.ch/blog Thoughts of Matthias Stürmer Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:51:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday around 40 people joined a little expedition on the Faulhorn to ride the longest sledging trail of Europe - a great way of starting the age above 30! And fortunately this time it was much better weather than five years ago ;) http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/how-the-serious-part-of-my-life-started.html As Google knows everything anyway today we decided from now on we manage our family finances with Google Docs. After long negotiations we agreed on a common categorization of our spendings. My highlite of the day was that I could play around with Google Spreadsheets and program a little 'lightweight' ... http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/managing-family-finances-with-google-docs.html Finally the Wikipedia DE community accepted the entry for "Digitale Nachhaltigkeit". Just hours after my initial publication of the short article a request for deletion was posted by Wikipedia watchers. This was followed by a long discussion between the editors, Thorsten Busch, and myself. In the end, one of the ... http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/digitale-nachhaltigkeit-is-finally-in-wikipedia-de.html There hasn't been a political vote for a long time that has been so important to me: the prohibition of weapon exports. I've given several public statements at StopArmut events, discussion panels and party meetings on my opinion to ban Swiss military exports. Below is the ad which was published ... http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/vote-against-swiss-weapon-exports.html Yesterday I had a talk at the 3rd E-Government Symposium in Bern about how to use the open source community principle in e-government projects. Interest in the topic was huge compared to my speech two years ago. This time the room was full of people. Many came to me after ... http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/how-to-use-the-open-source-community-principle-in-e-government.html Today was one of my most political days: First, in the afternoon, I met Federal Council Micheline Calmy-Rey and Martin Dahinden, the director of the Swiss Development Agency, in order to pass them on a petition of our campaign StopArmut 2015. They took 20 minutes to listen to our concern that ... http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/meeting-micheline-calmy-rey.html In this week's Netzwoche there is an article of mine about the concept of Digital Sustainability: Digitale Nachhaltigkeit - ein Konzept mit Zukunft Der nachhaltige Umgang ist nicht nur bei natürlichen Ressourcen notwendig, sondern wird künftig auch bei digitalen Gütern immer wichtiger. Doch welche Auswirkungen und Potenziale hat diese Entwicklung für Produzenten ... http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/netzwoche-article-about-the-concept-of-digital-sustainability.html Now it's final final: The 40 printed copies of my doctoral dissertation have arrived (everything written and layoutet with OpenOffice.org). Here on this blog I publish the abstract of the thesis and the PDF download of the introduction chapter (under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Switzerland license) without the ... http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/doctoral-thesis-published-how-firms-make-friends-communities-in-private-collective-innovation.html Amadeus Wittwer had the great idea to make a short documentation about regular computer users being put in front of a Linux machine - without being told that it's Linux (it's the Ubuntu Netbook Remix). Have a look at the great experiment: The official press release starts like this: Die Alternative zu ... http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/ususv2-linux-for-the-people.html Since spring, when we founded the Parlamentarische Gruppe Digitale Nachhaltigkeit (group of parliamentarians on digital sustainability), interest in this topic is rising. This and next month only I'm doing four speeches on these issues starting tomorrow in Vienna: “Digitale Nachhaltigkeit: Zusammenhang zwischen Open Source Software, Offenen Standards und freiem Wissen” October ... http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/talking-about-digitale-nachhaltigkeit.html