I'm Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using open source software, especially Django. In the '90s I did graphic design for newspapers and magazines. Then I wrote technology commentary and reviews for Wired, Salon.com, Chicago Tribune, and lots of little places you've never heard of. Feel free to email me.
I'm co-author of "Python Web Development with Django", an excellent guide to my favorite web framework. Published by Addison-Wesley, it is available from Amazon and your favorite technical bookstore as well.
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At OSCON I learned that just up the Willamette River from Portland, in sleepy Corvallis, Oregon State University's Open Source Lab hosts www.mozilla.org. Maybe you've heard of it. They also provide hosting and/or mirror services to Apache, KDE, Xiph.org, Debian, Gentoo, and others. In the early '90s I briefly lived in Corvallis and this just gives me the warm fuzzies.
Public universities have a long history with open source -- my server would not be what it is without Berkeley in particular -- but I don't come across a lot of explicit advocacy from schools beyond the level of individual employees or researchers who work on projects of their own volition. Public universities should be big backers of open source, I think, so I hope that OSU's example is inspirational.
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