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Interview with German Scholarship student Julian Hübenthal

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 24th of June 2022 11:24:19 AM Filed under
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I have already used free and open source software, for example the Linux distribution Ubuntu as part of my studies, or Eclipse even before my studies. However, I have not yet participated in such a project myself.

Apart from the questions, I would also like to thank you again for the support and recognition of my achievements.

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Meet Chris Hildenbrand, the artist behind the winning Inkscape 1.2 About Screen

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 22nd of June 2022 01:52:35 AM Filed under
Software
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Congratulations to Chris Hildenbrand, the winner of the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen Contest, held this year, 2022.

We recently caught up with Chris to ask a few questions about himself and his use of Inkscape.

Inkscape: Please introduce yourself to the Inkscape Community. Who is Chris and where in the world do you live?

Chris Hildenbrand (Chris): I grew up in Germany but was lucky enough to end up in tropical far North Queensland in Australia. I am calling Cairns home now - where the reef meets the rain-forest.

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Challenges of Creating a Decentralized, Open Source Twitter

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 1st of May 2022 09:19:55 AM Filed under
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Web

This is not the first time social media giant Twitter has been besieged by would-be open source competitors. As concerns grow about an undue influence that Elon Musk, who is set to buy the social media giant, might have over the world’s unofficial town square, many are now contemplating jumping to a true open source, peer-to-peer social media network such as Mastadon, or perhaps even starting a new one from scratch.

But standing up a federated, open source equivalent free from corporate influence may be more difficult than one might image.

Open source software developer and advocate Evan Prodromou has been down this path before. A few years after Twitter launched, Prodromou fielded an open source, decidedly non-commercial Twitter-like microblogging service, called StatusNet, which, at least for an audience of technically-inclined open source types, gave Twitter a run for its money. More than 8,000 folks (myself included) signed on within 24 hours of its launch on July 2, 2008, and accumulated more than a million notices by that November.

Over time, StatusNet grew into into a commercial service called Identi.ca, and its code base was eventually rewritten, by way of Node.js, into an activity streams engine that can be used to power internal or public-facing social media services.

We spoke with Prodromou, by email, to learn more about the challenges and potential benefits of creating an open source, decentralized competitor to Twitter. What were the technical, and social challenges to running a social media service, especially an open source federated one? And what can we achieve by establishing web standards in this space?

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The future of Linux: Fedora project leader Matthew Miller weighs in

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 29th of April 2022 03:46:49 PM Filed under
Red Hat
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I think, fundamentally, the problem is that there’s not a mass-market for operating systems at all. Some people, of course, find technology at this level fascinating — probably a lot of the folks interested in reading what you and I have to say about it. But, relative to even other geeky pursuits which have become mainstream (hello, grown-ups who build cool LEGO things! hello, fellow D&D nerds!), caring about your operating system at all is pretty esoteric.

There is certainly a market for operating systems at a corporate level, in the enterprise and for millions of different technology use cases businesses need to solve. Something has to power the cloud, and there needs to be a platform for all the software that a modern electric car needs to run. Those markets have actually already decided that the answer is Linux, and those are definitely markets with a lot of money at stake.

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Krita Interview with J2J-Art

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 25th of April 2022 09:01:40 PM Filed under
KDE
Interviews

My name is Jessica, but my art name is J2J-Art. I am a self-taught artist, I was born in 2004 in South Africa and I have only been creating art for 4 years now.

I draw both digitally and with graphite pencils on paper.

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Linux KDE receives first-ever eco-certification for Okular

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 21st of April 2022 11:22:11 AM Filed under
KDE
Interviews

Software can produce waste in many ways. Software that reduces this waste is software that is more sustainable. User autonomy and transparency, the pillars of Free and Open Source Software, are factors that the Blauer Engel ecolabel recognizes as critical for sustainable software.

I can illustrate with some examples.

A computer may be rendered hardly usable, or not usable at all, due to inefficient software design, feature creep, and other forms of software bloat that users may not need or even want. Yet vendors force users to buy newer, more powerful hardware. When updates for a device, like a mobile phone or tablet, are discontinued, most people discard the device as e-waste because continued use would be a security risk. This e-waste can have huge environmental costs.

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Interview with Eben Upton

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 12th of April 2022 12:53:04 PM Filed under
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Broadly our goal with RP2040 and Raspberry Pi Pico is to bring to the microcontroller space the same mixture of high-quality curated content, and industrial-grade product reliability that characterises the “big” Linux-based Raspberry Pi. One exciting aspect of our move into the microcontroller space is that, because we’re producing our own silicon, we’ve been able to work with a broad range of partners to produce boards that have a high level of compatibility with our software ecosystem, but address different user requirements. Examples include the Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect.

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There is always something new to learn and do in Linux

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 7th of April 2022 07:01:32 PM Filed under
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To get more knowledge about Linux I took an 8-week Basic Linux course by Henry White which he ran on an email list. Eventually I was helping Henry with answering questions on the list. Some of us met on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) once a week. This is text-based where we got to know each other as well as take up computer problems or course questions. Later I got involved in another Basic Linux course for a few years. Like Henry, our main goal was to help new Linux users. Back then, Linux was not nearly as user-friendly as it is today. I saw the turn take place with Ubuntu. That was a huge breakthrough for non-geeks to jump in. I was using Debian, but switched to Ubuntu to become familiar with what my mom was now using instead of Windows.

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The open source way with artist Jasmine Becket-Griffith of Strangeling.com

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sunday 3rd of April 2022 07:40:17 AM Filed under
Interviews

Not to actually paint, but I rely a tremendous amount on open source content for research materials, museum databases for historic painting references, and other channels that have a similar concept driving them.

In a way, I see the Strangeling Public Domain Project as an attempt at democratizing fine art and commercial image licensing as a sort of "Open Source Art Project."

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LibreOffice ecosystem interview: Michael Meeks at Collabora Productivity

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 25th of March 2022 03:06:10 PM Filed under
LibO
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Following our interviews with Caolán McNamara at Red Hat and Thorsten Behrens at allotropia, today we’re talking to Michael Meeks from Collabora Productivity...

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