mjray's blog

Yesterday, Prime Minister David Cameron announced a Co-operatives Bill to consolidate the laws around Co-operative Societies (a subset of Industrial and Provident Societies, I think). This is overdue and very welcome.

This is my first week back after two weeks off (I aim for three complete weeks off a year).

The SPI election results have been declared. Jimmy Kaplowitz, Clint Adams and Robert Brockway were elected to the SPI board.

Software in the Public Interest (SPI) will hold its Annual General Meeting today: Wednesday, 13th July 2011 at 20:30 UTC (21:30 UK, 22:30 CET).
SPI is the developer association that supports debian, O

Thanks to the Guardian for publishing Why co-operatives matter written by two members of our co-op.
Also today, I’m pictured being given a share by Giles Simon of our national co-ordinating co-op on t

It’s Co-operatives Fortnight until 9 July and our co-op is supporting many events:

This afternoon (Wednesday 29 June), we’ll be at Co-operative lending and ethical investment in Bristol;
Tomorrow, we

John Atherton sent me a link to cyberunions discussing open-source and worker co-ops.
In general, it’s a very good show and worth a listen by anyone from the union movement, in my opinion.

Software in the Public Interest is one of the oldest and best non-profit associations (and not a foundation!) that supports free and open source software development and it will hold a public board o

Particularly around local government, but also some not-for-profits and universities, I’m trying to persuade people to stop using huge Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) lists that they keep in their address boo

Software in the Public Interest (the organisation behind debian and many more) will hold a public board meeting later today (Wednesday) at 20:30 UTC (=21:30 BST, 22:30 CEST or date -d @1305145800 to y