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| I Am | |
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Joe Brockmeier |
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About Me |
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier is a freelance writer and editor with more than 10 years covering IT. Formerly the openSUSE Community Manager for Novell, Brockmeier has written for Linux Magazine, Sys Admin, Linux Pro Magazine, IBM developerWorks, Linux.com, CIO.com, Linux Weekly News, ZDNet, and many other publications. Brockmeier is also a FLOSS advocate and participates in several projects, including GNOME as the PR team lead. You can reach Zonker at jzb@zonker.net and follow him on Twitter. |
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System administration, technical writing, project management, marketing. |
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MySQLOpenOfficeopenSUSEGIMPFirefoxThunderbirdMediaWikiWordPress |
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Owner and Founder of Dissociated Press |
Location |
Bradenton, Florida |
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A UX Designer in Every Upstream?
By jzb - Jun 10, 2010
Build Mac Apps with MonoDevelop and MonoMac
By jzb - Jun 09, 2010
When Will Intel Fix the Poulsbo Mess?
By jzb - Jun 04, 2010
Facebook Protest Fails
By jzb - Jun 01, 2010
FSF Elaborates on App Store Enforcement
By jzb - May 28, 2010
The Contributor's Code: What Should be Expected of FLOSS Contributors?
By jzb - May 27, 2010
Apple's GPL Snafu and Opportunity
By jzb - May 26, 2010
Zombies, Open Source, and Bad Analogies
By jzb - May 25, 2010
Education for the Open Web Fellowship Deadline Approaching
By jzb - May 24, 2010
Django 1.2 Brings Security Improvements
By jzb - May 21, 2010
CKAN Goes Gold: Open Data for All
By jzb - May 20, 2010
Time to Stop Preaching to the Converted?
By jzb - May 14, 2010
OpenOffice.org Still Kicking
By jzb - May 12, 2010
Free Software Foundation Embraces Accessibility
By jzb - May 11, 2010
Fedora Dropping Official PowerPC Support
By jzb - May 10, 2010
More Community Classes, Please
By jzb - May 07, 2010
Too Many Forges, Too Little Time
By jzb - May 06, 2010
Six Apache Projects Graduate to Top-Level Status
By jzb - May 04, 2010
Interview with Mercurial's Matt Mackall
By jzb - Apr 29, 2010
The Sad Story of XOOPS: Governance Fail
By jzb - Apr 28, 2010
Trust, But Verify: Being Responsible with Social Media
By jzb - Apr 26, 2010
Xen Cut from RHEL 6
By jzb - Apr 23, 2010
Five Tips on Getting Your Talk Accepted
By jzb - Apr 22, 2010
Linux Shedding Indie Status is a Good Thing
By jzb - Apr 21, 2010
Bugzilla 3.6 Brings Extensions and Addresses Usability
By jzb - Apr 20, 2010
Where's the Summer of Documentation?
By jzb - Apr 19, 2010
Google Chrome Leads Browser Upgrades Through Mandatory Updates
By jzb - Apr 16, 2010
Is Your Site's FAQ Helpful or Useless? Improving the Lowly FAQ
By jzb - Apr 15, 2010
Cassandra Release Brings Speed Boost: Beginning of the End for MySQL?
By jzb - Apr 14, 2010
The Joy of Betas: Fedora 13 Beta Released Today
By jzb - Apr 13, 2010
No Permission Needed: Contribute Without Fear
By jzb - Apr 12, 2010
Canonical Announces 12 Million Ubuntu Users, Google Makes a Comeback
By jzb - Apr 09, 2010
Taking IBM to Task on Patents: What's Useful and What's Not?
By jzb - Apr 08, 2010
VC Funding for FLOSS Dips in 2009: Rebound in 2010?
By jzb - Apr 07, 2010
Time to Abandon AIM
By jzb - Apr 06, 2010
Songbird Abandons Official Linux Builds
By jzb - Apr 05, 2010
Mozilla Labs' Contacts in the Browser Updated
By jzb - Apr 02, 2010
Put April Fools' Day to Bed
By jzb - Apr 01, 2010
Careful With That Competitive Analysis, Eugene...
By jzb - Mar 31, 2010
SCO Can't Win for Losing: Jury Says Novell Owns Unix Copyrights
By jzb - Mar 30, 2010
Empathy 2.30 Released with Improved Facebook and IRC Support
By jzb - Mar 30, 2010
Watching OpenSolaris: What's the Story?
By jzb - Mar 29, 2010
Motivation and Contributions in Open Source: Stop Romanticizing Unpaid Contributions
By jzb - Mar 29, 2010
Get Organized With BasKet
By jzb - Mar 26, 2010
A Look at Clustered File Systems: Interview with Gluster's Anand Babu Periasamy
By jzb - Mar 23, 2010
Nexuiz Forks: Another Example of Single Ownership Problems
By jzb - Mar 23, 2010
More Bad English, Please
By jzb - Mar 22, 2010
Why Webscale Companies Need open Source
By jzb - Mar 22, 2010
Is Wikipedia's "Deletionism" Out of Control?
By jzb - Mar 19, 2010
A Look at LiMo: Interview with David "Lefty" Schlesinger
By jzb - Mar 18, 2010
Why Community Projects Need CRM Too
By jzb - Mar 18, 2010
Applying Best Practices to Open Data
By jzb - Mar 17, 2010
BitNami adds Ubuntu to the Stacks
By jzb - Mar 17, 2010
Mozilla Announces Jetpack for Learning Winners
By jzb - Mar 16, 2010
The Case for Cadence: Towards a Shared Release Cycle
By jzb - Mar 16, 2010
Vosao: CMS for Google App Engine
By jzb - Mar 15, 2010
Will Simon Phipps Energize OSI?
By jzb - Mar 11, 2010
A Good Company Looks Like A Good Open Source Project
By jzb - Mar 11, 2010
Evan Prodromou Speaks on the Future of StatusNet
By jzb - Mar 10, 2010
A Bright Future for Drizzle
By jzb - Mar 10, 2010
Filling the Gap: Open Clip Art Library Provides More than 26,000 Images
By jzb - Mar 09, 2010
Tinymail 1.0 Released
By jzb - Mar 08, 2010
Towards a Beautiful WordPress Future: Automattic Hires Theme Wizard Ian Stewart
By jzb - Mar 08, 2010
The Scoop on LibrePlanet: Interview with Deborah Nicholson of the FSF
By jzb - Mar 05, 2010
Elive 2.0 Brings Enlightenment to the Desktop
By jzb - Mar 05, 2010
What a Difference Marketing Makes: Opera Triples Downloads with Browser Ballot
By jzb - Mar 04, 2010
The Silver Lining in the Cloud is Open Source
By jzb - Mar 04, 2010
Embiggen Your Brain with gbrainy
By jzb - Mar 03, 2010
Improve Internet Health with a Microsoft Tax?
By jzb - Mar 02, 2010
Document Freedom Day Coming March 31
By jzb - Mar 02, 2010
KDE SC 4.4 Available on Windows
By jzb - Feb 28, 2010
In Defense of Distro-hopping
By jzb - Feb 26, 2010
Canonical Taps Enlightenment for Ubuntu ARM Devices
By jzb - Feb 26, 2010
StatusNet Goes Enterprise
By jzb - Feb 25, 2010
The Quake III Test
By jzb - Feb 25, 2010
Spice Up Your Site with SIMILE Widgets
By jzb - Feb 24, 2010
PC-BSD 8.0 Goes Gold
By jzb - Feb 24, 2010
Working with Ruby and Amazon Web Services: Ruby/AWS 0.8 Released
By jzb - Feb 23, 2010
Travel Rails in Style with Hobo 1.0
By jzb - Feb 23, 2010
CentOS Clone OpenNode Aims to Simplify KVM and OpenVZ
By jzb - Feb 22, 2010
Eucalyptus Completes Amazon Web Services Specs with Latest Release
By jzb - Feb 19, 2010
Banshee Extensions Getting Easier
By jzb - Feb 19, 2010
Enterprise Edition... Space Invaders?
By jzb - Feb 18, 2010
Apache Project Releases PDF Tools
By jzb - Feb 18, 2010
Twitter Loves Open Source: Just Not as Much as Status.net
By jzb - Feb 17, 2010
Measuring FAIL: A Scorecard for Evaluating Open Source Projects
By jzb - Feb 17, 2010
BuddyPress 1.2 Brings Social Features to WordPress Sites
By jzb - Feb 16, 2010
Wholesale Applications Community Drowns in Noise
By jzb - Feb 16, 2010
Gnumeric 1.10 Release Brings Better Tools
By jzb - Feb 15, 2010
Free Software Foundation Europe says I ♥ Free Software
By jzb - Feb 15, 2010
OpenOffice.org 3.2: 10 Years in the Making
By jzb - Feb 12, 2010
Making Thunderbird Financially Sustainable: How it Could Work
By jzb - Feb 11, 2010
What's Coming in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
By jzb - Feb 11, 2010
LinuxQuestions.org Announces 2009 Members Choice Awards
By jzb - Feb 10, 2010
Ksplice Uptrack: No More Rebooting?
By jzb - Feb 10, 2010
OpenOffice.org by the Numbers
By jzb - Feb 09, 2010
KDE 4.4 Brings Social Media Improvements and Netbook Interface
By jzb - Feb 09, 2010
Oracle Cuts Affect GNOME Accessibility Work
By jzb - Feb 08, 2010
SourceForge Removes "Blanket" Block
By jzb - Feb 08, 2010
Layoffs Won't Stop Project Wonderland
By jzb - Feb 05, 2010
Mozilla Studying Menu Item Use in Firefox
By jzb - Feb 05, 2010
Raising Money for Open Source Projects: How Can We Improve?
By jzb - Feb 04, 2010
Eben Moglen Live in NYC on Friday: Freedom in the Cloud
By jzb - Feb 03, 2010
Facebook Friends PHP: Introducing HipHop
By jzb - Feb 03, 2010
FSF Adds to Objections on Google Book Search Settlement
By jzb - Feb 02, 2010
Akademy Call for Papers Opens
By jzb - Feb 02, 2010
Fixing the Perception of Bugs
By jzb - Feb 01, 2010
Alfresco Decides Less is More: Switching to LGPL
By jzb - Feb 01, 2010
Defective by Design is Defective
By jzb - Jan 28, 2010
Apache Unleashes SpamAssassin 3.3.0
By jzb - Jan 27, 2010
KDE 4.4 Kreeps Kloser to Komplete
By jzb - Jan 26, 2010
Nmap Gets a Major Update
By jzb - Jan 22, 2010
WordPress Foundation Launched
By jzb - Jan 22, 2010
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Your Server with boxinfo
By jzb - Jan 20, 2010
Disney Releases 3D Modeling Library Under BSD License
By jzb - Jan 19, 2010
Crowdsourcing the KDE Web Site
By jzb - Jan 18, 2010
Integrating WordPress and Twitter
By jzb - Jan 15, 2010
Permissive or Reciprocal? Choosing the Right License
By jzb - Jan 14, 2010
BerliOS Hosting Site Hacked
By jzb - Jan 13, 2010
Google's Chinese Diplomacy: Can Google Make a Difference?
By jzb - Jan 13, 2010
Opera Using GStreamer, Pushing Ogg
By jzb - Jan 12, 2010
Richard Stallman on GPL Exceptions
By jzb - Jan 11, 2010
The Unlicense: A License for No License
By jzb - Jan 11, 2010
The State of PostgreSQL: Not So Easy to Kill
By jzb - Jan 07, 2010
Superphone is Just Another Word for Personal Computer
By jzb - Jan 06, 2010
Monty Still Trying to "Save" MySQL
By jzb - Jan 04, 2010
Mozilla Design Challenge Announced: Design a Home Tab for Firefox 4
By jzb - Dec 31, 2009
Release Early, Release Often, Adopt Slowly
By jzb - Dec 30, 2009
Mozilla Jetpack Gets an Update
By jzb - Dec 28, 2009
Organize Holiday Photos with digiKam 1.0
By jzb - Dec 24, 2009
Get Things Done with WordPress
By jzb - Dec 23, 2009
Google's Meaning of Open: Is It Yours?
By jzb - Dec 22, 2009
WordPress 2.9 Nears
By jzb - Dec 17, 2009
SFLC Takes on Consumer Electronics Companies: Will it Help?
By jzb - Dec 15, 2009
Monty Going Full Out Against MySQL Acquisition
By jzb - Dec 14, 2009
Google's Privacy Gaffe
By jzb - Dec 11, 2009
Linux Powers Christmas Lights for Charity
By jzb - Dec 10, 2009
Google Takes on HTTP with SPDY
By jzb - Dec 09, 2009
Eben Moglen to European Commission: Have Faith in the GPLv2
By jzb - Dec 04, 2009
Nokia Upgrades Qt to 4.6 with Support for Symbian and Multitouch
By jzb - Dec 03, 2009
Making Projects Easier to Package: Why Chromium Isn't in Fedora
By jzb - Dec 02, 2009
Extend Firefox Winners Announced
By jzb - Dec 01, 2009
Mozilla Jetpack Design Challenge Extended
By jzb - Nov 27, 2009
Thunderbird 3.0 Release Candidate: Just in Time for Thanksgiving
By jzb - Nov 25, 2009
K Desktop Environment is Dead: Long Live KDE
By jzb - Nov 25, 2009
Mozilla Picks Up the Drumbeat
By jzb - Nov 24, 2009
Checking in on Mozilla's Financial Health
By jzb - Nov 23, 2009
What Does a User Cost?
By jzb - Nov 19, 2009
Doing "Notmuch" to fix Email
By jzb - Nov 18, 2009
Amarok Refreshed: Better, Stronger, Faster!
By jzb - Nov 17, 2009
Google Unleashes Go: A Brand New Systems Programming Language
By jzb - Nov 11, 2009
Google Provides Closure: Releases Open Source JavaScript Optimizer
By jzb - Nov 06, 2009
SFLC Provides Background Info for Bilski
By jzb - Nov 06, 2009
Bringing ERP to Small Business with Tryton
By jzb - Nov 05, 2009
Apple Scuttles ZFS: Community Picks it Up
By jzb - Oct 31, 2009
Grand Unified Theory of Microblogging
By jzb - Oct 30, 2009
Community Conferences Win Hands Down
By jzb - Oct 28, 2009
Open Source Windows? Don't Count on It
By jzb - Feb 01, 2009
How Long Will Oracle Last?
By jzb - Jan 31, 2009
Bdale Garbee Has Close Shave at Linux.conf.au
By jzb - Jan 22, 2009
Free Isn't Enough
By jzb - Aug 25, 2008
Brian Proffitt Joins Linux Foundation as LDN Community Manager
By jzb - Jul 11, 2008
Yes, We Need Users Too!
By jzb - Jul 01, 2008
Open Source Doesn't Need Billionaires
By jzb - May 09, 2008
Four Things Linux Needs
By jzb - Apr 10, 2008
Microsoft's Impatience is a Good Thing
By jzb - Apr 07, 2008
Watching GPLv3 Adoption: Steady But Not Overwhelming
By jzb - Apr 01, 2008
Branding Open Source Projects
By jzb - Mar 28, 2008
What Does Wine 1.0 Mean for Business?
By jzb - Mar 21, 2008
Why Open Source is Growing at an Amazing Pace: Because it Can
By jzb - Mar 18, 2008
Wal-Mart, the gPC, and Avoiding the "M" Word
By jzb - Mar 13, 2008
What are the Right Reasons for World Domination?
By jzb - Mar 11, 2008
Why Amazon, Not iTunes, is the Future of Digital Music
By jzb - Mar 10, 2008
AOL AIMs For More Openness, with a Catch
By jzb - Mar 06, 2008
Joe Brockmeier's Blog Comments
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Linux Shedding Indie Status is a Good Thing
By jzb - Apr 21, 2010
Where's the Summer of Documentation?
By jzb - Apr 19, 2010
Is Wikipedia's "Deletionism" Out of Control?
By jzb - Mar 19, 2010
Defective by Design is Defective
By jzb - Jan 28, 2010
Integrating WordPress and Twitter
By jzb - Jan 15, 2010
SFLC Takes on Consumer Electronics Companies: Will it Help?
By jzb - Dec 15, 2009
Doing "Notmuch" to fix Email
By jzb - Nov 18, 2009
How Long Will Oracle Last?
By jzb - Jan 31, 2009
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