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		<title>A Citizen&#8217;s Opinion</title>
		<link>http://patrickoconnor.ie/blog/2010/12/11/a-citizens-opinion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#1048;&#1082;&#1086;&#1085;&#1086;&#1087;&#1080;&#1089;&#1080;&#1082;&#1086;&#1085;&#1080; &#1094;&#1077;&#1085;&#1080;&#1055;&#1088;&#1072;&#1074;&#1086;&#1089;&#1083;&#1072;&#1074;&#1085;&#1080; &#1080;&#1082;&#1086;&#1085;&#1080;This is a transcript of an letter I sent to all the current TDs voicing my opinion on Wednesday&#8217;s vote whether to accept the IMF &#8220;bailout&#8221; or not. If you feel as strongly about this issue as I do please let your TDs know. You can get a list of all sitting TDs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Widening Chasm (or Why We Need to Refuse the &#8220;Bailout&#8221;)</title>
		<link>http://patrickoconnor.ie/blog/2010/12/02/the-widening-chasm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have seen in recent years the increasing pace of growth of the divide between &#8220;rich&#8221; and &#8220;poor&#8221;. By this I mean in an asset sense, those with particular assets have been leveraging them at ferocious rates to increase their wealth on paper, sucking value generating wealth from our economies. This acceleration of asset acquisition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Irish Catharthis</title>
		<link>http://patrickoconnor.ie/blog/2010/11/20/the-great-irish-catharthis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have seen in the past few decades our country become ravaged by our leaders and influential people driven more by greed and love of power than integrity and service to their society. We have become so denigrated that we did not even see the depths to which we descended as a nation. Driven by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neelie Kroes on open source and the importance of communities</title>
		<link>http://patrickoconnor.ie/blog/2010/07/19/neelie-kroes-on-open-source-and-the-importance-of-communities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#1082;&#1091;&#1093;&#1085;&#1077;&#1085;&#1089;&#1082;&#1080; &#1084;&#1072;&#1089;&#1080;This video message from Neelie Kroes was recorded in a request to support the GNOME Community, GUADEC 2010 and The GNOME Open Desktop Day. The European Commissioner for Digital Agenda and Vice-President of the European Commission reflects on the growing acceptance of open source and emphasises the importance of communities in shaping the digital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teach Your Boss How to FLOSS</title>
		<link>http://patrickoconnor.ie/blog/2010/02/12/teach-your-boss-how-to-floss-update-prezi-com/</link>
		<comments>http://patrickoconnor.ie/blog/2010/02/12/teach-your-boss-how-to-floss-update-prezi-com/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teach Your Boss How to FLOSS &#8211; Part 1 on Prezi Teach Your Boss How to FLOSS &#8211; Part II]]></description>
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		<title>The Dublin Hub &#8211; CoWorking Co-Creation Evening</title>
		<link>http://patrickoconnor.ie/blog/2009/07/02/the-dublin-hub-coworking-co-creation-evening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things are progressing nicely with the Dublin Hub. We&#8217;re looking at possible locations and are now lloking to recruit potential members. On July 14th @ 7pm we are hosting a co-creation evening for anyone interested to come along and learn more or help us with developing the space. For those who don&#8217;t yet know what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qualipso Conference Lowdown</title>
		<link>http://patrickoconnor.ie/blog/2008/01/18/qualipso-lowdown/</link>
		<comments>http://patrickoconnor.ie/blog/2008/01/18/qualipso-lowdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had a thoroughly enjoyable time in Rome at the Qualipso conference over the past 2 days. Thanks to Roberto Galoppini for the heads up via his blog. Qualipso is a global consortium established to bridge business and public administrations to the Open Source world. It was established in 2006 and has members in the EU, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qualipso 2008</title>
		<link>http://patrickoconnor.ie/blog/2008/01/16/qualipso-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m attending the Qualipso Conference for the next few days. Interesting to see the EU massive starting to put some mass in Open Source and Free Software. Hopefully there&#8217;s a lot more to come!]]></description>
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		<title>Who said sequels were rubbish? (Dissertation 2.0)</title>
		<link>http://patrickoconnor.ie/blog/2008/01/16/who-said-sequels-were-rubbish/</link>
		<comments>http://patrickoconnor.ie/blog/2008/01/16/who-said-sequels-were-rubbish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully this will be the exception to the rule&#8230; I&#8217;ve finally made the changes to the dissertation that I didn&#8217;t have time for by the submission deadline. This is a true Version 2.0 as a lot of glaring errors were corrected and &#8220;features&#8221; were added in including more graphs in the Methodology section and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dissertation&#8230; The End of the Beginning</title>
		<link>http://patrickoconnor.ie/blog/2007/11/29/dissertation-the-end-of-the-beginning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a link to my &#8220;completed&#8221; dissertation. Its the culmination of several years of interest in Open Source and Small Businesses and aims to add to research into the competitiveness of small and micro enterprises through collaboration and integration of small and micro enterprises in the backdrop of a global economy. The work is completed [...]]]></description>
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