Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Web, and Education

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 01, 2025

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Coalition for Networked Information ☛ LOCKSS Co-Founders Honored with 2025 Paul Evan Peters Award

    The LOCKSS software has since been adopted as an economical, easy-to-use, and robust basis for the massive, global, publisher-supported CLOCKSS network and networks preserving, among others, e-journals and government documents. Through research, development, and maintenance, the proven technologies mitigate technological, economic, and legal threats to data persistence.

    Andrew K. Pace, ARL executive director, stated that “Victoria and David’s unwavering commitment to digital preservation and their innovative leadership with LOCKSS have made a lasting, positive impact. Their work continues to address the critical challenge of ensuring the long-term accessibility and integrity of digital content.”

  • David Rosenthal ☛ Paul Evan Peters Award

    Part of the award is the opportunity to make an extended presentation to open the meeting. The text of our talk, entitled Lessons From LOCKSS, with links to the sources and information that appeared on slides but was not spoken, should appear here on April 7th.

  • [Old] LOCKSS Program ☛ Software | LOCKSS Program

    LOCKSS 2.0 is a containerized application orchestrated by Kubernetes, which can run from a single Linux host using an installable Kubernetes distribution.

  • At This Link ☛ Some Unsolicited Research Tool Suggestions

    While what "doing research" looks like will vary wildly from project to project, how we go about conducting research can certainly be made a lot easier based on the tools we choose. Here I've chosen a selection of unconventional, overlooked, or just interesting tools that I use on a daily basis to track, organise, and guide my research. Some of these are purpose-built for academic purposes, others have just been repurposed to fill a very effective niche.

    For some, their undergraduate dissertation or other such project might be their only real exposure to academic practice before they depart for the world of work. For others, it can be the catalyst that persuades them to remain in academia; either pursuing another degree or employment. I've tried to make selections that cater to both camps - tools that, once learned, offer benefits outside of just a research context but that offer functionality that's beneficial regardless of your situation, both in the short term or over a career.

  • Web Browsers/Web Servers

    • Chromium

      • PC World ☛ uBlock Origin is dead for Chrome, but its successor still lives on

        The Grim Reaper is here now, with Manifest V3’s full implementation all but complete. If uBlock Origin and other extensions haven’t been taken away from you yet, they very soon will be—so it’s time to jump to a viable alternative ASAP. Going without an ad-blocker is a security risk, as rogue ads can push you to phishing sites or spread malware.

    • Mozilla

      • Mozilla ☛ Mozilla Performance Blog: Performance Testing Newsletter (Q4 Edition)

        Welcome to the latest edition of the Performance Testing Newsletter! The PerfTools team empowers engineers with tools to continuously improve the performance of Mozilla products. See below for highlights from the changes made in the last quarter.

        This quarter also saw the release of perf.compare! It’s a new tool used for making comparisons between try runs (or other pushes). It is now the default comparison tool used for these comparisons and replaces the Compare View that was in use previously. Congratulations to all the folks involved in making this release happen! Feel free to reach out in #perfcompare on Matrix if there are any questions, feature requests, etc.. Bugs can be filed in Testing :: PerfCompare.

  • Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra

    • Document Foundation ☛ LibreOffice QA Team: Fixing a bug in three days

      LibreOffice is used by 200 million people around the world. Every major release goes through extensive testing, with Alpha, Beta and Release Candidate versions – and there are regular monthly minor updates to fix issues too.

  • Education

    • Paolo Melchiorre ☛ DjangoCon Europe 2025

      DjangoCon Europe is an international conference for the community by the community about the Django web framework, held each year in Europe.

    • Julia Programming Language ☛ Julia & JuliaHub: Advancing Innovation and Growth

      JuliaHub and the Julia community have grown at a tremendous pace in recent years, and we want to take this opportunity to celebrate some of these successes.

    • AsiaBSDCon ☛ [AsiaBSDCon Announce] Updates on AsiaBSDCon 2025

      Due to a confluence of circumstances: financial, logistical, and personal we are unable to hold the conference as planned this year. We deeply apologize for this and are sad that we will not be able to meet in Tokyo this year, as we had planned.

      AsiaBSDCon has weathered financial downturns, an earthquake and other very real challenges since it was started 20 years ago. For the conference to have a vibrant future some things must change and we are undertaking these changes presently, and are also going to be asking for help from the community.

      Changes with immediate effect: [...]