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GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) - Review 2023 - PCMag UK
A free but fussy Photoshop alternative
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Upcoming Foundation activities at APRICOT 2023
The APNIC Foundation (Foundation) is pleased to be hosting two sessions at the upcoming APRICOT 2023 conference in Manila.
On Monday, 27 February, the Foundation will host a session on fostering technical community action on climate and inclusion. This session will provide an update on the Foundation’s activities, with a particular focus on ISIF Asia’s first-ever Ian Peter Grants for Internet and the Environment, as well as the Switch! South East Asia gender and diversity project.
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SCALE - Southern California Linux Expo
SCALE is back in Pasadena March 9-12, 2023. We are a community and volunteer run Linux and OSS conference held annually in the Greater Los Angeles area
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LibreOffice is in the Google Summer of Code 2023!
Everyone loves having shiny new features in LibreOffice. But how do we get them? Many are developed by volunteers and people in the ecosystem.
But another great source of new features is the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. GSoC Contributors work with open source organisations on a 12+ week programming project under the guidance of mentors.
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The Document Foundation is now on Mastodon! - The Document Foundation Blog
You may know that the LibreOffice project has been on Mastodon for a few years – it’s a free, open-source and federated social media service (with similar features to Twitter).
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StarlingX 8: The cloud for edge computing gets a major upgrade | Open Source Watch
StarlingX uses best-of-breed open-source programs to deliver a complete edge computing stack. This starts with Ceph. This Red Hat-sponsored do-it-all, open-source software-defined storage platform can work with object-level, block-level, and file-level storage. For cloud management, it uses the tried and true OpenStack. And, for container orchestration, StarlingX uses, of course, Kubernetes.