[call for volunteers] Sociology research on power and control aspects of FOSS

2011-02-27 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
Hello All, Hagit is a masters student in the Haifa university. She is conducting research about aspects of control and power in the FOSS community and projects. She is looking for people to interview on the matter. Needless to say, she will annonimize all interviews. She will also have a second ey

[HAIFUX LECTURE] UniversAAL - Open Source platform for Ambient Assisted Living and Smart Home Environment - Vadim Eisenberg

2011-02-27 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
On Monday, February 28th (TODAY) at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Vadim Eisenberg talk about UniversAAL - Open Source platform for Ambient Assisted Living and Smart Home Environment Abstract I will present two presentations about an EU FP7 IP project I w

Re: Completely OT: Where can I find Hebrew etymology?

2011-02-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 23:14, Stan Goodman wrote: > You mean Pitriya, mushroom, fungus? I would be enormously surprised if > this was a word so modern that it had to be invented by, or named for, a > 19 - 20th century biologist. Pitriyot have surely been eaten here for > millenia. I don't think B

Re: Completely OT: Where can I find Hebrew etymology?

2011-02-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 22:57, Aviram Jenik wrote: > If "pitria" is what you're looking for (you originally wrote 'petria' - > doesn't really mean anything in Hebrew) then a simple google search: > מקור השם פטריה > > Gives this as the 5th entry: > http://he.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%A8%D