OSS: Free Fonts, Mastodon, LibreOffice, ksqlDB, Conservancy
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Useful and Innovative Free Fonts
If you are looking for a replacement for a proprietary font, open source fonts offer plenty of options.
Collecting fonts used to be expensive. The average font family cost several hundred dollars, which meant that you had to be selective. That changed overnight with the rise of open source fonts. Contrary to conventional wisdom, talented designers were perfectly willing to release their designs under a free license and to work in teams.
Today, there are still thousands of proprietary fonts for every free font. However, that still leaves hundreds of free-licensed fonts to choose from. Some are replicas of popular fonts or revivals of older designs, while others are original designs. The best free-licensed fonts can be as useful and innovative as any proprietary font. The days when “free fonts” were synonymous with “cheap and shoddy” are now a decade in the past. Below are some examples of the diversity that is available.
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People Find Us Troll-Free Compared to Twitter: Mastodon Founder
Eugen Rochko: The idea behind Mastodon is that online communication should not be beholden to one private company. It’s way too important to be subject to commercial interests (e.g. ads), financial instability (e.g. Twitter’s problems on the stock market, CEO issues, potential buyout by another entity), or laws of a single government (e.g. USA) extending over the whole world. Mastodon turns that top-down hierarchy into a completely flat (non-)hierarchy.
As a decentralised service, legally and operationally independent, Mastodon servers are run all over the globe, and anyone can create a new one. The social network is more robust against any risks as a result and can accommodate many communities with varying needs and rules.
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Community Member Monday: Sokibi, Indonesia
Sokibi (no last name – it’s a typical Javanese old-style name) was born in a rural village, around 45KM away from Semarang City in Central Java island, Indonesia He now runs a small store residing in a traditional market, working on repairing computers, selling new and used computers, and provided open source solutions for migrations, support and training.
Sokibi has had extensive experience with office suites – from StarOffice and OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice. So besides his daily job, he put huge effort into teaching LibreOffice in schools, from primary schools to high schools. It was not always easy to go to different schools, which were usually very far away from his home town or company, but over the last 20 years, Sokibi has insisted on spreading knowledge about these office suites, without getting students locked in to proprietary software. During these times, Sokibi also wrote 16 books about learning computers from beginner level onwards, including four books for kindergarden kids and 12 books for primary school students.
What Sokibi has done is not only teaching computing and LibreOffice in schools. Many villages in Central Java have libraries but no computers at all. Although Sokibi has just run a small store selling computers, he decided to donate many computers to these libraries to build computer labs there, with Linux and many other open source programs – including LibreOffice – pre-installed.
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Confluent introduces ksqlDB event streaming database
Confluent is looking to make it easier for developers to use stream processing with a new event streaming database it calls ksqlDB.
The ksqlDB event streaming database became generally available on Nov. 20 and builds on the vendor's expertise in streaming technologies, including its KSQL query language for streaming data, as well as the Apache Kafka open source streaming data technology.
Kafka is widely used to stream data, though there are many ways that users use the data and pull it into different types of databases. With ksqlDB, Confluent is providing what it is positioning as a new type of database that is specifically built for event streaming.
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Donors Challenge Conservancy Supporters with Largest Match Yet
We’ve been challenged by a group of amazing individuals and Private Internet Access to raise a total of $113,093 during this fundraising season. These are folks who believe in software freedom and believe in Conservancy. This illustrious group includes; Leslie Hawthorn, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Martin Krafft, Mark Wielaard, David Turner and Danielle Sucher, and Bdale Garbee -- you'll be hearing more about them in the coming weeks on our blog.
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