This year, Catalyst organized the fifth annual Open Source Academy. It took place in our Wellington HQ from 5 to 16 January 2015. It was a full house again with 23 students. They came primarily from Wellington, but we also had a few from the Auckland and Canterbury regions. This year, girls outnumbered boys by […]
For several weeks now I have been using a functionality of my file browser that I had ignored religiously in the past. You see, Ubuntu, a Linux-based operating system, comes with Nautilus, which is the built-in file browser. For the most part, I file all my downloads or files that I create away in folders so […]
The Mahara project has a vibrant community where users report bugs and also new features. We triage them regularly so that we have an overview of bugs that need fixing and also know what features users would like to see implemented. However, our feature wish and bug list is quite long, and I’ve had the suspicion […]
In 2012 and 2013 (not 2014 because I was in Western Australia) I have been trying to go to a cricket test match right after New Year’s, but the weather was not favorable. This year, I almost thought it would be the same case again because it rained in the morning. However, it cleared up […]