Free Software and Open Data
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LibreArts Weekly recap — 2 April 2023
Week highlights: new releases of Blender, QCAD, Qtractor, first pre-release of Inkscape 1.3, new features in GIMP, FreeCAD, Ardour.
CmykStudent added initial support for the QOI file format that is intended to be a replacement for PNG with lossless compression and faster encoding. There was an earlier plugin for GIMP 2.10by Piotr Fusik, that served as an inspiration.
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Why Open-Source a Model?
A simple framework based on my short taxonomy of open source strategies (specifically applied to machine learning models).
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Improve An Open Data Bill To Prevent Heart Attack Deaths in NYC
New Yorkers don't know where our nearest defibrillators are, so when people have heart attacks, we lose people we could save. A new NY City Council bill aims to open that data. We need your help to improve it and get it passed. Submit written testimony by 10am ET on Sunday, April 2nd.s