a good day for free culture in the mail

20 August 2010 by sage

I got a trio of nice packages in the mail today, from Automattic, the Wikimedia Foundation, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Matt Mullenweg sent me a lovely “code is poetry” WordPress t-shirt, along with some nice stickers, pencils, and a certificate that I’m one of the “Three Most Important People in WordPress“.  Thanks, Matt!  GPL FTW!!

I got a letter and a physical barnstar thanking me for contributing to the Wikimedia Strategic Planning process last year.

And I got my membership package from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, with a t-shirt and a sticker.

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3 Responses to “a good day for free culture in the mail”

  1. Eugene Eric Kim says:
    20 August 2010 at 12:25 pm

    Glad the letter and barnstar arrived safely! Well deserved!

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  2. Tweets that mention a good day for free culture in the mail - ragesoss -- Topsy.com says:
    20 August 2010 at 1:38 pm

    [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Sage Ross, Sage Ross. Sage Ross said: Today was a good day for mail: http://ragesoss.com/blog/2010/08/20/a-good-day-for-free-culture-in-the-mail/ Yay, t-shirts! [...]

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  3. Beth Lynn Eicher says:
    20 August 2010 at 4:40 pm

    Code can be art too! check out the link I used as a website Dr. David S. Touretzky’s DeCSS gallery.

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