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Two seats are becoming available in the IRC Council, so we reached out for nominees to serve on the Council. The nomination period has ended,
but the IRCC and the Community Council are unhappy with the low number of nominees. We need more nominees, and are therefore now extending the nominations period until Friday, 2010-12-03, 23:59 UTC.

If you considered nominating yourself for an IRC Council position during the nomination period but decided against it, please reconsider. If you did not think about nominating yourself, please do so now. The election process is described on the wiki.

Here’s your chance to ensure smooth IRC governance and improve it!

I have been aware of Free Beer for years, but I have never come across it on my physical adventures, so unfortunately I have never had a chance to taste it. On the other hand, I’ve often attended cocktails and other occasions where I’ve had the chance to sip some non-free beer freely. An entry in the Free Beer blog (which in turn references an entry in Lessig’s blog) got me thinking about the free speech vs. free beer dichotomy again.

We can chuckle at the idea, as I certainly have, of Free Beer that is “free as in free speech” but not “free as in free beer”. But it is one of the best pedagogic instruments we have.

Free Beer is now at version 4.0, and everyone is invited to brew some, improve the recipe, and share their improvements with the community of beer lovers all around the world. Anyone is also free to brew Free Beer in their commercial brewery and sell it on the market as a commodity, essentially asking their customers to think not about “free beer” but “free speech”. The open source recipe is constantly improving because of the effort put in by the distributed, volunteer beer hackers, as well as because of competition between the commercial brewers in the market. I think this is easier to explain than Red Hat.

Beautiful. We have won.