Posted in European Union, Organic Computing, tagged consultation, low carbon on June 2 2009 | Leave a Comment »
European Citizens do not only get their say in the upcoming EU Parliament elections, they are also invited to contribute to the consultations of the Commission presents with the IDABC Interactive Policy Making tool.
On March 12, 2009, the Commission adopted a Communication on mobilising Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to facilitate the transition to an [...]
Posted in Organic Computing, lxde, tagged low carbon on March 15 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on mobilising Information and Communication Technologies to facilitate the transition to an energy-efficient, low-carbon economy
COM(2009) 111 final, 13-03-2009
This Communication presents a set of ambitious measures that focus on what can be achieved [...]
Posted in Organic Computing, Uncategorized on February 26 2009 | 6 Comments »
The CIO newsletter from the Federal Government of Germany (was: KBSt-Newsletter) informs about new activities to stimulate the German economy:
Bereits am 29. Januar 2009 hatte der IT-Rat des Bundes ein vom Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Informationstechnik vorgelegtes Rahmenkonzept über IT-Maßnahmen zum „Pakt für Beschäftigung und Stabilität in Deutschland“ beschlossen. „”Ziel der Maßnahmen ist es, die [...]
Posted in Organic Computing, netbook on February 8 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Negroponte talks about the OLPC again. His hardware vision for educational purposes inspired the netbooks. I remember that at the UN World Summit for the Information Society in Geneva Negroponte’s vision was the only substantial concept in an ocean of world transformation strategies and humanity discussions of dictators. Oh, and I found the presentation of [...]
Posted in Cloud, Organic Computing, lxde, tagged lxshortcut on December 8 2008 | Leave a Comment »
LXDE has a added new component, lxshortcut. It’s a small utility used to edit application shortcuts. I really missed it. In other words, it is for those little buttons you click on and that start the application for you. The tool demonstrates the LXDE philosophy to make the desktop not only lightweight and [...]
Posted in Cloud, Organic Computing, lxde, tagged lxde on December 8 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sustainability expert Chris Watkins points at the upcoming CarCampTaipei where members of the LXDE team will present their light Desktop environment software.
Chris also has some suggestions for Linux distributions (via Twitter):
#Linux desktops need a keyboard shortcut for the applications/system menu. Shouldn’t the Windows key be mapped by default?
