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0:30 Stephen keeps us waiting by breaking his computer

Stephen’s distro hopping addiction causes chaos

Stephen likes Trisquel but couldn’t get it to work seamlessly

Moral of the story – don’t experiment on a production machine

2:40 Stephen makes the news

He gets ranting with some racist politicians

Anti-immigrant rhetoric has lead to outbreaks of violence

Secure communities gives police stop and search rights for suspected immigrants 6:40 Walton’s updates

London has many people

Walton encourages his employers to buy three netbooks instead of one iPad

It’s an EeePC Seashell series

Ditched the Windows 7 Starter crippleware and installed Ubuntu using UNetbootin

Absolutely seamless experience – everything works perfectly

Not crazy about the Unity desktop – don’t like Gnome 3 either

Ubuntu gives me innovation fatigue

Virtual desktops are a great option for netbooks with limited screen space

Impress your friends with the famous Compiz spinning cube desktop

13:00 We have a guest on the show today – welcome Keir

Keir lives in Edinburgh – shop steward for a TUC union as well as an IWW member

Keir maintains the IWW membership system using Free and Open Source Software

CiviCRM is free Constituent Relationship Management software

More than a database – it’s a systemic approach to organising

Stephen discovers he used the same software on the Howard Dean campaign

Most cutting edge CRM software is by Blue State Digital and Nation Builder

Very slick, but also expensive and not FOSS

There are potential privacy issues, so you need to be up front about the data you’re collecting 26:30 Feedback