2013-12-31T22:00:00Z

• Greetings to Greece and 30 more  Cairo, Ankara, Athens, and Bucharest, followed by a short reminder of the ORCA fundraiser.
• Discussion of the new cast of TuxRadar
• Got talking about Jupiter Broadcasting
• Deep discussion on the world of Jono Bacon
• The discussion of Jono / Aq on LugRadio evolves into a debate on the nature of debate
• This conversation evolved into a question / debate about software morality, SndChaser suggested that maybe it is an ethical question instead of a moral question

2013-12-31T23:00:00Z

• Greetings to Germany and 43 more Brussels, Madrid, Paris, and Rome, followed by a short reminder of the ORCA fundraiser.
• Our co-hosts pound on the morality topic some more...
• We should all be advocates for Free / Libre software wherever and whenever we can.
• Software applications that are Open Source which are better than their closed-source counterparts:
  • FocusWriter (offered by ThistleWeb): https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/
  • DarkTable (pegwole): https://www.darktable.org
  • LightZone (pegwole): https://lightzoneproject.org
  • GIMP (pegwole): https://www.gimp.org
  • G'MIC (): https://gmic.sourceforge.net/gimp.shtml
  • Sound Converter (ThistleWeb):
  • Simple Screen Recorder (FXB): https://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/
  • Maelstrom (sebsebseb): https://maelstrom.sourceforge.net
  • TuxPaint (sebsebseb): https://tuxpaint.org
  • mtpaint (sebsebseb):  https://mtpaint.sourceforge.net
  • Jitsi (sebsebseb): https://jitsi.org
  • kid3 (pokey):
  • EasyTag (pokey):
  • Audacity (pokey):
  • gPodder (pokey):
  • PuddleTag (SndChaser):
  • avidemux (ThistleWeb):
  • OpenShot (Kwisher)
  • EtherPad (k5tux):
  • WordPress (SndChaser):
  • Abiword (sebsebseb):
  • gnumeric (sebsebseb):
  • LibreOffice (k5tux): https://libreoffice.org
  • mplayer (ken)
  • ffmpeg (ken)
  • emacs (SndChaser);
  • vim (SndChaser):
  • kdenlive (k5tux):
  • Open Street Map (pokey): https://openstreetmap.org
• Which distro are you using and why?
• Ease of use vs control over the operating system.
• Dann: thinking about using desktop environments, always found that he was setting them up like Fluxbox, so just sticking to fluxbox now.

2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

• Greetings to United Kingdom and 24 more  London, Casablanca, Dublin, and Lisbon, followed by a short reminder of the ORCA fundraiser.
• (0002Z) Pokey: Mac OS was moderne when it was created, but now it's looking old and tired
• SndChaser thinks we are kind of spoiled with all the options - includnig things that don't exist elsewhere - like Awesome.  But lovest the ability we have to build our desktops to fit our workflows and optimize how we work.
• (0020Z) K5Tux: Easy to learn (he's coming back to it...) -- "Going to change lanes: When discussing ease of use, what about "don't care to know" folks, gamers, etc -- those who don't worry about privacy and software freedom, I have my own thoughts on but I'd like to hear the consensus on the danger for those who just don't care."
• (0045Z) How did you come to Linux?
• (0048Z) Free Software's major achievements in 2014:
  • Watches or glasses (marcusbaird)
  • SteamBox (ThistleWeb)
  • ROMs for entry-level mobile phones (pokey)

2014-01-01T01:00:00Z

• Greetings to Cape Verde, some regions of Greenland and 1 more  Praia, Ponta Delgada (Azores), Ittoqqortoormiit, and Mindelo, followed by a short reminder of the ORCA fundraiser.
• Is Windows made for the consumer or is it made just to look that way on the store shelves? (pokey)
• Thistleweb expounds upon the evils of extended warranties
• eBook discussion

2014-01-01T02:00:00Z

• Greetings to regions of Brazil, Uruguay and 1 more Rio de Janeiro, S??o Paulo, Brasilia, Montevideo, followed by a short reminder of the ORCA fundraiser.
• Pokey mentions that he is furious that the authors guild forced the text-to-speech to be disabled on the Kindle... and names Roy Bloundt Jr.
• Electronic versions of textbooks are not reducing the number of printed books.  Students have to buy / lease the paper books, then get the electronic version.  And, in many cases they cannot (easily) re-selly the paper copy for even half of what they paid.  In the case of grade school / highschool they cannot sell the books since they are just leased.
• Pokey brought up OpenText Books: https://creativecommons.org/tag/open-textbooks
• JonKulp - textbooks
•  https://jonathankulp.org/ - Creative Commons Counterpoint Textbook
• JonKulp - Blather
• SndChaser asks Jon to comment on Musopen and the status of classical music publishing / performance
• JonKulp mezmerizes the room with the contents of his cranium (this time it's with Blather).
• Your're funny!!
• LTM
• JonKulp is an accomplished composer. Some of his works can be found at https://jonathankulp.org/comp.html

2014-01-01T03:00:00Z

• Greetings to regions of Brazil, Argentina and 7 more Buenos Aires, Santiago, Asuncion, Paramaribo, followed by a short reminder of the ORCA fundraiser.
• JonKulp gets introduced to mate tea
• Jonathan Nadeau (https://accessiblecomputingfoundation.org/) talks about Orca & Festival speech synthesis
• Jonathan Nadeau talks about moving to manjaro
• It is determined that Perberos, Stefano Karapetsas (stefano-k), Steve Zesch (amanas) and Clement Lefebvre (clem) are the people responsible for removing all accessibility features from MATE, the Gnome2 fork. Gnome2 used to be the most accessible desktop.

2014-01-01T03:30:00Z

• Greetings to Newfoundland and Labrador/Canada  St. John's, Conception Bay South, Corner Brook, Gander, followed by a short reminder of the ORCA fundraiser.
• Jon Kulp: Open Dyslexic Font
• SndChaser installs Open Dyslexic extension in chromium
• Pokey looks at the Open Dyslexic website and is able to read the page very quickly (quickly for pokey anyway), goes ahead and tries to install the font on Mint
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