It’s Synfig crowdfunding time! Again!
Synfig, our favourite 2D animation suite, is looking for donations to keep development rolling.
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Q&A with Inkscape’s Lead Developer, Bryce Harrington
We finally managed to catch up with Bryce Harrington, one of the original founders of Inkscape and the current Lead Developer. Bryce had been a bit under the weather, but he was game to doing the interview live over IRC. We met up on the #inkscape channel on Freenode at 5 pm. Pacific Time (Bryce),…
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GPG has reached its goal of raising 120,000 euros
A feel good story for today: after months of making very little progress, the GPG crowdfunding campaign took off last night big time after Julia Angwin published an article about the project’s dire financial situation in ProPublica.
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“It’s not just Free Music; …
… It’s Good Music” is the Free Music Archive’s tagline, and quite right they are too: Free Music contains nearly 80,000 carefully curated and classified music tracks of all kinds of genres and moods.
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Free Software – The Short
The Free Software Foundation has commissioned an animated short to help explain what Free Software is.
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Christmas is coming (III): The Gift of Freedom
It may sound hackneyed, it may sound trite, but many of the best things in life are free. Seriously. Even for Christmas. And not only in the not-costing-any-money sense of the word either. Free Software is on the rise and many apps targeted at end-users are as good, sometimes better, than expensive proprietary alternatives.
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Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) Will Die Without Your Donation
The GPG team is running a donation campaign to keep the project alive. GnuPG keeps your email and communications secure by encrypting your messages and validating signatures.
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Morevna Project – Beyond Cartoons
The Morevna Project goes way beyond the original aim of creating an anime feature film using exclusively Free Software. In fact it is now the hottest bed for Open Source 2D animation in the world, located, ironically, in a cold and remote region of Russia.
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WhatsApp CEO donates USD $1,000,000 to FreeBSD
The FreeBSD Foundation, creators and maintainers of the free and open sourced FreeBSD operating system, have received a very generous donation of one million dollars from Jan Koum, CEO and founder of WhatsApp, as a sign of appreciation for the code the Foundation shares.
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The Internet’s Favourite Composer
Kevin McLeod is one of those artists who you don’t know you love until someone points him out to you. And then, suddenly, he seems to be everywhere.
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Using Trademarks to Stifle Free Software
The news today is that GNOME, the organisation behind one of the two most popular free and open Linux desktops, may lose the exclusive use of its name over a trademark spat. It turns out the Groupon, the deal-of-the-day website, has brought out a point-of-sale tablet called GNOME, the same as the GNU/Linux desktop environment.…
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