Birgit Maass (born in November 1968 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German-British journalist living in London. She is the UK correspondent for Deutsche Welle.
Before she moved to London Birgit Maass studied Cultural Studies and Media at the University of Lüneberg. She has worked for German state broadcasters all over the world working on documentaries like Gepanscht, gestreckt, gefälscht in 2002.
Maass' TV report Victims of Youth Violence was nominated for the FPA awards 2019 in the category TV/ Radio Report by a full member of the Foreign Press Association. In 2016 she founded the social media activist group Hug A Brit with Tessa Szyszkowitz, Katie Lock and Paul Varga in order to keep Britain in the European Union. The campaign went viral in April 2016 and added a human touch to the Brexit campaign which divided the United Kingdom: "Only love can help Britain from leaving the EU", said the German daily Die Welt in its report . She also was quoted by TheDrum saying: "No Brit was harmed." In the run-up to the EU referendum Maass hugged Nigel Farage on BBC television.
Hug A Brit was nominated for the Europe State Award 2016 by the Austrian ministry for Foreign and European Affairs. The Europe State Award is an acknowledgement of initiatives that contribute towards promoting understanding of the EU and cohesion in Europe.
Birgit Maass also comments regularly on British and European affairs on British media and German speaking media.
Before she moved to London Birgit Maass studied Cultural Studies and Media at the University of Lüneberg. She has worked for German state broadcasters all over the world working on documentaries like Gepanscht, gestreckt, gefälscht in 2002.
Maass' TV report Victims of Youth Violence was nominated for the FPA awards 2019 in the category TV/ Radio Report by a full member of the Foreign Press Association. In 2016 she founded the social media activist group Hug A Brit with Tessa Szyszkowitz, Katie Lock and Paul Varga in order to keep Britain in the European Union. The campaign went viral in April 2016 and added a human touch to the Brexit campaign which divided the United Kingdom: "Only love can help Britain from leaving the EU", said the German daily Die Welt in its report . She also was quoted by TheDrum saying: "No Brit was harmed." In the run-up to the EU referendum Maass hugged Nigel Farage on BBC television.
Hug A Brit was nominated for the Europe State Award 2016 by the Austrian ministry for Foreign and European Affairs. The Europe State Award is an acknowledgement of initiatives that contribute towards promoting understanding of the EU and cohesion in Europe.
Birgit Maass also comments regularly on British and European affairs on British media and German speaking media.
NASLite is a free specialised commercial Linux distribution designed to turn conventional x86-based computers with PCI interface into a simple network-attached storage device.<ref name"RG1"/> It fits onto a single 3½-inch High Density floppy disk formatted to 1.72MB. NASLite boots the floppy disk<ref name"CD2"/> and runs in a 4MB RAM disk allowing for full capacity of the hard disk drives to be used as storage.<ref name"RG1"/> NASLite supports serving files to clients running Windows, Linux, Mac OS X as well as others.<ref name"RG1"/>
Other versions are available which support different networking protocols, or booting the operating system from CD-ROM<ref name"CD2"/><ref name"DWR1"/>, USB Mass Storage device or hard disk drive.
All versions of NASLite and its variants contain GPL'd and proprietary components. The GPL'd components are available to the end user per the GPLv2.
Minimum hardware requirements
NASLite is targeted to run well on outdated hardware, but requires at least a computer with PCI interface. Other minimum requirements are a 486DX or Pentium CPU, 16 MB RAM, a PCI Ethernet card, IDE hard disk drive, and a floppy disk drive.<ref name="RG1"/>
Networking capabilities
NASLite turns its target machine into a simple file server. Since file serving takes up very little processing speed as opposed to network speed or hard drive speed, it is able to run on comparatively old computers with little processing power. As it runs from a floppy disk, hypothetically all (usually four) IDE channels can be used for hard drives.<ref name="RG1"/>
NASlite has three variants supporting different file serving protocols. These are Samba to support serving to Microsoft Windows client machines, NFS to serve to Unix based operating systems, or FTP (Anonymous FTP only). It also supports remote administration via telnet (though not SSH), and includes a web server to display usage and error logs.
Compatibility
Since it is based on Linux, NASLite (like other Linux distributions) supports new larger hard drives that often are not supported by older machines, by bypassing the BIOS and directly accessing the hard drive(s), greatly increasing the usefulness of an older computer for serving large amounts of data.
Other versions are available which support different networking protocols, or booting the operating system from CD-ROM<ref name"CD2"/><ref name"DWR1"/>, USB Mass Storage device or hard disk drive.
All versions of NASLite and its variants contain GPL'd and proprietary components. The GPL'd components are available to the end user per the GPLv2.
Minimum hardware requirements
NASLite is targeted to run well on outdated hardware, but requires at least a computer with PCI interface. Other minimum requirements are a 486DX or Pentium CPU, 16 MB RAM, a PCI Ethernet card, IDE hard disk drive, and a floppy disk drive.<ref name="RG1"/>
Networking capabilities
NASLite turns its target machine into a simple file server. Since file serving takes up very little processing speed as opposed to network speed or hard drive speed, it is able to run on comparatively old computers with little processing power. As it runs from a floppy disk, hypothetically all (usually four) IDE channels can be used for hard drives.<ref name="RG1"/>
NASlite has three variants supporting different file serving protocols. These are Samba to support serving to Microsoft Windows client machines, NFS to serve to Unix based operating systems, or FTP (Anonymous FTP only). It also supports remote administration via telnet (though not SSH), and includes a web server to display usage and error logs.
Compatibility
Since it is based on Linux, NASLite (like other Linux distributions) supports new larger hard drives that often are not supported by older machines, by bypassing the BIOS and directly accessing the hard drive(s), greatly increasing the usefulness of an older computer for serving large amounts of data.
Chetu is an American software company headquartered in Plantation, Florida. It was founded by in 2000 by Atal Bansal.
History
Chetu was founded in Miami, Florida, on 1 April 2000. In 2004, Chetu established its first base in Asia by opening its first branch in Noida, India.
In 2008, the headquarters was moved from Miami to Miramar, Florida. In 2009, Chetu opened its first software delivery store in Las Vegas, Nevada.
From 2011 till 2014 Chetu opens five more stores in Tampa, Florida, Dallas, Texas, Nashville, TN, Chicago, Illinois, and Noida, India. Also, in 2014 Chetu moved the In 2014 the headquarters were moved to Plantation, Florida.
History
Chetu was founded in Miami, Florida, on 1 April 2000. In 2004, Chetu established its first base in Asia by opening its first branch in Noida, India.
In 2008, the headquarters was moved from Miami to Miramar, Florida. In 2009, Chetu opened its first software delivery store in Las Vegas, Nevada.
From 2011 till 2014 Chetu opens five more stores in Tampa, Florida, Dallas, Texas, Nashville, TN, Chicago, Illinois, and Noida, India. Also, in 2014 Chetu moved the In 2014 the headquarters were moved to Plantation, Florida.
And Co is a company that develops and markets services as products for small businesses and freelancers. The company was founded in 2015 in New York City, United States.
Overview
The company was founded in 2015 by Martin Strutz and Leif Abraham, at Prehype, a startup incubator, with an app to enable users to create invoices, manage accounts and customer billing. In 2018 the platform was serving 60,000 small businesses.
The company raised seed funding of US$2,000,000 in early 2016. And Co's disclosed investors include Designer Fund, BoxGroup, former Behance founder Scott Belsky, and Joshua Kushner’s fund, Thrive Capital, according to a report on Crunchbase.
And Co was acquired by Fiverr in January 2018. Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman said “the vast majority of freelancing is happening offline”, and Fiverr wants to enable those offline relationships, and was therefore making And Co's offering completely free. The amount of the deal was undisclosed, but was estimated by Globes to be “several million dollars”.
Williams&Harricks debt collection letters
In 2017, And Co launched a service called Williams&Harricks, which enables service providers who have not been paid by their clients to send low cost demand letters, to help in their debt collection efforts.
The Freelance Contract
In conjunction with the Freelancers Union, And Co launched the first standard freelance contract in 2017, built around the Freelance Isn't Free Act, a New York City law designed to protect freelancers.
Research
And Co conducts and publishes research on the gig economy in which it operates from time to time, and in September 2018 discovered that amongst remote workers, 55% of respondents say they work remotely 100% of the time, while 28% say they work remotely and on-site, with another 15% stating they are mostly on-site working remotely only some of the time. In September 2018 the company revealed that among digital nomads, women were more likely to earn more than 50,000 than men (44% vs 39%).
Overview
The company was founded in 2015 by Martin Strutz and Leif Abraham, at Prehype, a startup incubator, with an app to enable users to create invoices, manage accounts and customer billing. In 2018 the platform was serving 60,000 small businesses.
The company raised seed funding of US$2,000,000 in early 2016. And Co's disclosed investors include Designer Fund, BoxGroup, former Behance founder Scott Belsky, and Joshua Kushner’s fund, Thrive Capital, according to a report on Crunchbase.
And Co was acquired by Fiverr in January 2018. Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman said “the vast majority of freelancing is happening offline”, and Fiverr wants to enable those offline relationships, and was therefore making And Co's offering completely free. The amount of the deal was undisclosed, but was estimated by Globes to be “several million dollars”.
Williams&Harricks debt collection letters
In 2017, And Co launched a service called Williams&Harricks, which enables service providers who have not been paid by their clients to send low cost demand letters, to help in their debt collection efforts.
The Freelance Contract
In conjunction with the Freelancers Union, And Co launched the first standard freelance contract in 2017, built around the Freelance Isn't Free Act, a New York City law designed to protect freelancers.
Research
And Co conducts and publishes research on the gig economy in which it operates from time to time, and in September 2018 discovered that amongst remote workers, 55% of respondents say they work remotely 100% of the time, while 28% say they work remotely and on-site, with another 15% stating they are mostly on-site working remotely only some of the time. In September 2018 the company revealed that among digital nomads, women were more likely to earn more than 50,000 than men (44% vs 39%).