today's leftovers
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 751
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Ubuntu Fridge | Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 751
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 751 for the week of August 28 – September 3, 2022.
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Amusewiki is an Open-Source Wiki Engine for Publishers
Amusewiki is a free and open-source wiki engine that also can be used as authoring, archiving and publishing platform.
Amusewiki is also an amazing EPUB editor, viewer and authoring tool.
Unlike many other wiki engines, Amusewiki uses Emacs Muse Markup instead of Wiki syntax, or Markdown.
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View DICOM Images on Google Chrome with DICOM Image Viewer Extension
Google Chrome properly is the most used web browser, it gains popularity as many users prefers it for speed and usability.
With its vast ecosystem of extensions and themes, you can add more features or change looks to your browser just by heading to the Chrome store, search, and download the extension.
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Monday Morning: Open Source and the War on Covid
Although the phrase “open source” wasn’t used at all in NPR’s article (I’m sure of this because I have the transcript on screen as I write), it was obvious that the vaccine had been inspired by the open source development model, which had allowed it to not only be successfully developed, but developed at a price much, much lower that Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines, which don’t fit the budgets of most developing nations.
The vaccine was developed using proven long established methods for developing vaccines that are no longer covered by patents, if they ever were, and with no new patents being added to the work that was done for this particular vaccine. This means there’s practically no licensing costs to biotech companies in countries like India, which means they can afford to manufacture the vaccine and get the locals vaccinated.
It was also developed with an eye toward cultural diversity, another important aspect of open source. In this case that means the developers were careful to make sure that no animal products were required to manufacture the medicine.
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Updates On Space Actions Merge Request- GSoC'22 post #15
I created a merge request to submit my additions for Space Home and Space Creation/ Editing functionality. The merge request can be found here.
This merge request recieved a lot of helpful suggestions by Carl Schwan and Jan Bidler. I tried implementing a lot of them.
There were a couple of UI fixes. Non privileged accounts were restricted from accessing options to edit child rooms of Spaces on UI.
There were some syntax related changes too.
Functionality wise, I will be creating a new list model for the child room editor. It will contain the rooms user is part of as well as rooms that are children of Space. I also have to set up connections to update Space home page whenever changes to Space settings are made.