Free Software: PDF Editors, ActivityPub/Mastodon/Fediverse, Fintech Open Source Foundation, Software Freedom Conservancy, and The Document Foundation
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11 Best Free Open Source PDF Editors
Some teachers and students require editing their PDF to add annotations, and study notes.
Editing a PDF file is not an easy task, sometimes because of lack of a proper software. And it gets worse when you want to edit a badly encoded PDF file.
While there are many commercial apps that help to achieve this goal, they are not open-source and not for everyone. Therefore, we offer you our collection of free open-source PDF editors.
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A Creator of ActivityPub on What’s Next for the Fediverse - The New Stack
Evan Prodromou has been working on decentralized social media for nearly 15 years now, having created an open source Twitter alternative called Identi.ca in 2008. That service morphed a couple of times and eventually became pump.io — which was the genesis for ActivityPub, the core fediverse protocol of 2022.
In an interview with The New Stack, Prodromou talked about how ActivityPub evolved, the pros and cons of Mastodon, and where he sees opportunities for developers in the fediverse.
As I’ve covered in previous articles, it seems like the time for federated social software has finally arrived, in the aftermath of Elon Musk’s messy takeover of Twitter. So I began by asking Prodromou whether he feels a sense of validation in the current popularity of Mastodon.
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Evan Prodromou Explains the History of the Fediverse
In the interview, Prodromou, who credits Mastodon’s current success to its “very pragmatic and user-focused development team,” led by Eugen Rochko, explains the history of the Fediverse and shares his ideas about what it could ultimately become.
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You've got Mastodon questions, I've got answers [Ed: This is from Microsoft's Ed Bott, so be sceptical]
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The future of finance belongs to open source | ZDNET [Ed: Steven Vaughan-Nichols running fluff for the 'Linux' Foundation]
The Fintech Open Source Foundation has found banks and other financial organizations are no longer just using open-source software, they're building and sharing it.
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Supporter Interview with Jondale Stratton - Conservancy Blog - Software Freedom Conservancy
Next in our interview series, we have Jondale Stratton, a long time supporter of Software Freedom Conservancy. Jondale is the IT Manager for the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and the Technical Director for his local hackerspace, Knox Makers. In his spare time he enjoys laser cutting, tractors, playing with his bunnies, and replacing people with shell scripts.
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Community Member Monday: 锁琨珑 (Kevin Suo) - The Document Foundation Blog
I’m 36 years old, and I was born in the Gansu Province of China. I love in Beijing and I’m working as an Of Counsel in a leading law firm in Beijing. Some people may think that I’m a lawyer. No, I am not a lawyer – I am a professional accountant. My team work as local counsel on behalf of clients defending on Antidumping and Countervailing Duty investigations initiated by authorities (e.g., the U.S. Department of Commerce, the European Union etc) against companies and industries in China, and accountants play an important role in this field.
Although I am very busy at work every day, I love the internet, computers and programming. I can program using Python+Pandas and SAS, and tools such as these have greatly helped me in my daily data analysis work. I’m also a Linuxer. Many years ago I used Ubuntu, Debian, Arch Linux, and even Gentoo, but now I stick to Fedora Workstation. Currently 99.9% of my daily work is done under Linux, including those mission-critical work we submitted to the U.S. DOC and EU authorities.
I also know some HTML, CSS and PHP, and I have a server running at home with a WordPress instance and a Nextcloud instance. The server also servers as a mirror of some of the Libreoffice bibisect repositories (it is very slow to download from the TDF server here in China, so I need to mirror them).