Rachel Hamilton-Williams has been elected President of the New Zealand Open Source Society in yesterday's Annual General Meeting. After gaining a degree in Sociology from Massey University Rachel started her own business, Wellington based Katipo Communications in 1996. Katipo has created many open source software solutions, including the award winning Koha Library Management Software. Joining Rachel on Council will be three new councillors, Brenda Wallace, Scott Newton and Peter Fletcher.
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I have been using the Chromium web browser now for a few weeks on my Ubuntu Linux system. It is still a beta product but I have got used to its snappiness and also enjoy some of the extensions available for it.