I’ve not posted for a couple of weeks (the Easter break). I was away on holiday for one week, and the other week has been spend doing homework and decorating, but also working on my new pet project - ADFA.
ADFA, which stands for Audenshaw Digital Freedom Association, is my attempt to start raising awareness of Digital Freedom issues in my local community (mainly my school). These are going to be issues like the problems of DRM, the concept of sofwtare liberty and the idea that copying is not theft.
Over the break, I have built a website listing the different projects that the association would pursue and also, an explanation of our (read my) views on each of the issues. (Although there doesn’t seem as much stuff on their as I’d thought I’d written). Hopefully this will be a useful resource for anyone who I talk to who is interested and also a good way for us to work out what direction we are going in.
I have no idea whether this project is going to suceed or not. Even if it doesn’t I have a nice resource of all my thoughts on the issue. However, I know I already have some supporters, so hopefully well be able to achieve this.
Wish me luck, and tell me what you think of the site and its content.



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April 11, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Anonymous
Benjiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
April 11, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Anonymous
(loves microsoft)
April 11, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Anonymous
April 22, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Ben Webb
Childish comment there Abbie. Obviously I don’t. I can’t see why anyone would “love” Microsoft. They break the law (anti-trust), they’re unethical, their products aren’t much good. I could go on, but won’t.
May 10, 2008 at 5:50 pm
libervis
Great stuff.. I’m not sure how much bandwidth would this require. When you mentioned that you’d need a server on IRC I of course immediately thought about my VPS.. but since it’s gonna host two bigger and a number of small sites it’s already gonna be quite busy.
But I’d be willing to offer it as a preliminary solution though, at least for a while until a better host is found. At least it would allow people to try it out without burdening your connection and have it available non-stop.
Let me know. I just missed you on IRC by the minutes.