Open Tech Around the World
A video tutorial that was already published 2010 by Becky Stern gives a great overview of the proces to work with a hacked brother knitting machine KH-930e. The hack is based on the work of Steve Conklin and published on github here: github.com/adafruit/knitting_machine The Brother KH-930e Knitting Machine can be controlled by Open Source software. …
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Open Source has been the basis of Android and runs the biggest sites on the net. So what about Open Source apps? I was looking around for Open Source apps and I found a few sites, that collect them. There is already a short list with apps on Wikipedia. The web catalogue of Android Open …
Wikis are great to collect information and they work well, the more active users they actually have. With the growth of Wikipedia the number of people who understand how collaboration works in a Wiki increased dramatically (even though in fact many users of the Wikipedia still do not seem to know, that they can actually edit pages). For …
I guess in any project – open software, hardware, content – there are established working models and processes, that develop over time and help everyone involved to get things done. Those processes need to be explained and communicated to newbies taking time and adding overhead to volunteer projects. Tasks not everyone is interested in as …
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More and more people like the idea of collaborating in new ways, sharing their time and resources and work differently from the established way of doing things. Yesterday, I discovered workaway.info with the help of a guest in our hotel. It is a website that offers volunteers and organizations, NGOs, companies, families and everyone who …
A few weeks ago I had the chance to participate in Battle of the Mesh, the competition event for the best performing routing protocols, in Athens. After not having seen my friends from Ninux.org in Italy for a long time, we finally got together in the evening and enjoyed Greek food, salad with Feta cheese …
The full circle magazine did an interview with me to learn more about the lubuntu project. Listen to the first part here. Full Circle Podcast #8: More Opinion Than You Can Handle In this episode, Dave and Ed argue about evolution… of Ubuntu One and Lubuntu. Opinion: Why we need Lubuntu Interview: Part I of …
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PCMan, the founder of LXDE, told me a few ideas about “how to make lubuntu better”: One thing I think every developer can do to make Lubuntu better is quite simple. Lubuntu developers can help check if dialogs in LXDE programs can conform to Gnome HIG. Currently, most dialogs in PCManFM/libfm are designed with Gnome …
Radio Tux has published my interview with the core developers and contributors to the Lumiera project now. I conducted the interview at FROSCON 2009 a couple of weeks ago. Lumiera is a Free and Open Source video editing application project for GNU/Linux developed originally by the CinelerraCV community. It was born as a rewrite of …
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lynxis published the first lubuntu test iso based on the seeds by David Sugar and additional patches. The first release was 381 MB and a second one only 292 MB. Following test images are also around this size. After crashing the c-base server several times with the lubuntu images, the LXDE team kindly offers the …
