Open-Everything

This weekend, Futurice met in Helsinki for our annual #futucamp. What an excellent opportunity to improve the web of trust by having a Key Signing Party. Now it’s your turn: On your next company event or wherever you meet people, think about verifying identities and matching public keys. If you meet me anywhere (e.g. meetups or conferences), I can sign your public key as long as you provide an ID with a photo, as well as your public key fingerprint. ...

Today I visited and became a member at *Leila. You can think of it as a “lending library for things”. You can get a wide selection of tools, games, cooking equipment, electronic devices and much more. It works like this: You become a member by providing at least one of your items to the *Leila stock. Other members can lend your item from now on, without any costs. Per given item you can also get only one item, giving two items and you can lend two items at the same time. As simple as that! ...

I am in the process of migrating services from properitary, closed solutions over to open and libre products. OwnCloud, SubSonic and iRedMail replaced Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Mail and Calendar, as well as Spotify (way smaller library admittedly). A remaining bummer was my reliance on Android with a significant amount of Google services. So I was happy to give Mozilla’s Firefox OS a chance. Here are my experiences so far. Firefox OS The latest Firefox OS available for my hardware was v2.0. So not the latest iteration (v2.2) but at least the most recent major release. Your mileage with Firefox OS v1.x may vary a lot. ...