3 pins to start the new year

My new economic focus on creating more jobs and sustainable shareholder value, got off to a good start this past week. Three posts published feature various projects we've been working on, in different collaborations:

We've been working with Edward and Nicholas from Nitric for some time on Billy Engine which got a mention in the Tectonic. There's so much to write about Billy it deserves it's own post. The article doesn't do it justice, but actually did it justice because we had some interesting queries and many new signups.

The Sangonet NGO petition in support of the government policy on Free and Open Source Software, turned out well supported as featured in a follow up report by Badumile Duma. Most of the significant NGOs came out in support of the petition and it will hold its weight in Cabinet. I wish the Minister great Wesuccess with that, I'm positively hopeful.

And our Vanilla ISP appeared on myadsl this morning with our shiny new superfast unshaped R59 package (500MB + R0.16/MB thereafter). Also attracting a fair amount of attention.

We're still a little rough on the edges, but very luxurious on the inside. All in all a great start, thank G_d.