Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Stories
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Join Mastodon with Medium
A few weeks ago, we announced that Medium is embracing short-form writing by launching our very own Mastodon server at me.dm. Starting today, we’re opening up me.dm access for our member community. If you’re a Medium member, you can create an account on me.dm.
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Switch from iCloud to Nextcloud
If you're wary of committing your data to cloud services controlled by a corporation but love the convenience of remote storage and easy web-based access, you're not alone. The cloud is popular because of what it can do. But the cloud doesn't have to be closed. Luckily, the open source Nextcloud project provides a personal and private cloud application suite.
It's easy to install and import data—including contacts, calendars, and photos. The real trick is getting your data from cloud providers like iCloud. In this article, I demonstrate the steps you need to take to migrate your digital life to Nextcloud.
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[Old] Demystifying the Parquet File Format
Apache parquet is an open-source file format that provides efficient storage and fast read speed. It uses a hybrid storage format which sequentially stores chunks of columns, lending to high performance when selecting and filtering data. On top of strong compression algorithm support (snappy, gzip, LZO), it also provides some clever tricks for reducing file scans and encoding repeat variables.
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Open Education Week: How Moodle supports Open Education for a transformative future
Open Education Week (OE Week), launched in 2012 by Open Education Global (OE Global), is an annual global event that aims to raise awareness about the benefits of open education and promote its widespread adoption. It is a week-long celebration of open education and the open education movement.
OE Global is supported by over 250 member organisations and open educators, with Moodle being one of them.
The aim of the week is to promote and highlight the importance of open education. Since 2012, OE Week has become an important event for educators, researchers, students, and advocates of open education around the world. This year, OE Week takes place on March 6–10.
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2023-03-06 LibreOffice QA/Dev Report: February 2023
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2023-03-04 LibreOffice Print editions of new user guides