Podcasts about software freedom day

Check out the new Going Linux website design and the new articles! Bill goes Big Linux and has been having issues with Ubuntu based distros. We discuss snap vs flatpack. Sean rambles, makes software recommendations, and wants your opinion on Enlightenment. Gabe asks about device drivers for Linux JackDeth has weather recommendations, details a powerful computer and recommends RustDesk over Team viewer. George From Tulsa tiscusses laptop battery life and virtual machines on macOS. Reid provides an update on the Lemur Pro and Jim like's the new music. Episode Time Stamps 00:00 Going Linux 462 · Listener Feedback 00:28 Larry uses the wrong microphone 03:21 Larry redesigns the Going Linux website 06:16 Bill plays with Big Linux 07:26 Bill has been having issues with Ubuntu based distributions 09:18 Larry switches to the correct mic 10:40 Linux Mint ran without issues. Is it Snap vs. Flatpack? 14:46 SCALE 22x announcement 17:29 Sean: Ramblings and software recommendations 20:17 Software Freedom Day 23:43 YT-DLP 25:30 Gramps 26:20 Open source astronomy software 27:13 Inkscape and Sodipodi 27:34 AnsiWeather 29:09 Sean: Send in your opinions on Enlightenment 31:07 Stellarium 40:47 Gabe: Linux device drivers 51:26 JackDeth: Recommendations for Sean on weather apps 54:11 JackDeth: Dell Optiplex Linux load out 62:03 RustDesk vs. Team Viewer 66:28 George: Laptop battery life 72:26 George: UTM Virtual machine 74:47 Reid: An update on the Lemur Pro 81:22 Jim: I like the music 84:01 End

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – August 2024, Software Freedom Day, In security and privacy: Apple Suddenly Drops NSO Group Spyware Lawsuit; Then in our Wanderings: Bill flirts with Ladybird, Joe gets jiggy with his ports, Moss does something or other, Eric gets COSMIC; In our Innards section: we discuss DRM and digital media providers And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 4174 Thu 2024-08-01 Of the Mic and the Mop Ken Fallon 4175 Fri 2024-08-02 what's in my bag part 2 operat0r 4176 Mon 2024-08-05 HPR Community News for July 2024 HPR Volunteers 4177 Tue 2024-08-06 Blender 3D Tutorial #1 Deltaray 4178 Wed 2024-08-07 Today I learnt (2024-07-27) Dave Morriss 4179 Thu 2024-08-08 HPR New Years Eve Show 2023 - 24 ep 5 Honkeymagoo 4180 Fri 2024-08-09 Intro to Science Fiction Series Ahuka 4181 Mon 2024-08-12 Downloading out of copyright movies Bob 4182 Tue 2024-08-13 Replacing backup batteries in my Kenwood TS940S HF Radio Part 1 MrX 4183 Wed 2024-08-14 What's in Kevie's holiday bag: Kevie 4184 Thu 2024-08-15 Use GKRellM, wget and ImageMagick for a live slideshow gemlog 4185 Fri 2024-08-16 Archiving VCR or any other RCA media Ken Fallon 4186 Mon 2024-08-19 How to get started with Software Freedom Day? Trollercoaster 4187 Tue 2024-08-20 Go Fish Card Game Al 4188 Wed 2024-08-21 Re: HPR4172 Comment by Ken Fallon Archer72 4189 Thu 2024-08-22 HPR New Years Eve Show 2023 - 24 ep 6 Honkeymagoo 4190 Fri 2024-08-23 Civilization IV Ahuka 4191 Mon 2024-08-26 rkvm software KVM Windigo 4192 Tue 2024-08-27 Replacing backup batteries in my Kenwood HF Radio Part 2 MrX 4193 Wed 2024-08-28 Why I haven't recorded an episode for HPR thelovebug 4194 Thu 2024-08-29 Get more user space on your Linux filesystem with tune2fs Deltaray 4195 Fri 2024-08-30 Hacking HPR Hosts Ken Fallon Comments this month These are comments which have been made during the past month, either to shows released during the month or to past shows. There are 30 comments in total. Past shows There are 8 comments on 7 previous shows: hpr2023 (2016-05-04) "Setting up my Raspberry Pi 3" by Dave Morriss. Comment 7: Dave Morriss on 2024-08-23: "What failed first, the SD or the SSD?" hpr3661 (2022-08-15) "Ham Radio testing" by Archer72. Comment 2: Dave Lee (thelovebug) on 2024-08-22: "Only just got around to listening to this one" hpr4036 (2024-01-22) "The Tildeverse" by Claudio Miranda. Comment 1: Dave Lee (thelovebug) on 2024-08-22: "rawtext" hpr4096 (2024-04-15) "Powers of two" by Deltaray. Comment 4: mandigal on 2024-08-10: "RE:" hpr4135 (2024-06-07) "Mining the web" by Cedric De Vroey. Comment 4: Cedric on 2024-08-01: "Follow up" hpr4156 (2024-07-08) "Badger 2040" by Kevie. Comment 1: Ken Fallon on 2024-08-05: "I am weak" hpr4172 (2024-07-30) "Re: hpr4072 Piper voice synthesis" by Archer72. Comment 3: Ken Fallon on 2024-08-01: "More issues" Comment 4: Ken Fallon on 2024-08-02: "It works" This month's shows There are 22 comments on 9 of this month's shows: hpr4174 (2024-08-01) "Of the Mic and the Mop" by Ken Fallon. Comment 1: Knightwise on 2024-07-31: "Posting on behalf of Knightwise, and with his permission."Comment 2: dnt on 2024-08-03: "A good reflection on what this project is"Comment 3: Henrik Hemrin on 2024-08-04: "Leared more about what HPR is"Comment 4: Ken Fallon on 2024-08-05: "@dnt"Comment 5: Ken Fallon on 2024-08-05: "@Henrik"Comment 6: Archer72 on 2024-08-05: "Re: hpr4174::2024-08-01 Of the Mic and the Mop and Re: Henrik Hemrin" hpr4177 (2024-08-06) "Blender 3D Tutorial #1" by Deltaray. Comment 1: Deltaray on 2024-08-06: "Place to post your renders"Comment 2: Henrik Hemrin on 2024-08-13: "I like the audio tutorial concept" hpr4180 (2024-08-09) "Intro to Science Fiction Series" by Ahuka. Comment 1: Trey on 2024-08-09: "Downtown Buffalo Library"Comment 2: Kevin O'Brien on 2024-08-09: "Thank you Trey"Comment 3: Dave Lee (thelovebug) on 2024-08-14: "Great series!"Comment 4: Kevin O'Brien on 2024-08-15: "Just what I hoped for"Comment 5: Trollercoaster on 2024-08-20: "Small recommendation (and thanks)"Comment 6: Aaron B on 2024-08-24: "Interesting list, Sci fi" hpr4181 (2024-08-12) "Downloading out of copyright movies" by Bob. Comment 1: Windigo on 2024-08-12: "Alternative sites" hpr4182 (2024-08-13) "Replacing backup batteries in my Kenwood TS940S HF Radio Part 1" by MrX. Comment 1: Trey on 2024-08-13: "Thank you for the reminder" hpr4184 (2024-08-15) "Use GKRellM, wget and ImageMagick for a live slideshow" by gemlog. Comment 1: George on 2024-08-15: "png"Comment 2: gemlog on 2024-08-16: "re: png" hpr4185 (2024-08-16) "Archiving VCR or any other RCA media" by Ken Fallon. Comment 1: Trixter on 2024-08-21: "Some issues with your capture methodology"Comment 2: Ken Fallon on 2024-08-22: "Trixter" hpr4187 (2024-08-20) "Go Fish Card Game" by Al. Comment 1: Dave Lee (thelovebug) on 2024-08-22: "Not played this in years" hpr4188 (2024-08-21) "Re: HPR4172 Comment by Ken Fallon" by Archer72. Comment 1: Dave Lee (thelovebug) on 2024-08-22: "Bryce T. Shatner" Mailing List discussions Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This discussion takes place on the Mail List which is open to all HPR listeners and contributors. The discussions are open and available on the HPR server under Mailman. The threaded discussions this month can be found here: https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/pipermail/hpr/2024-August/thread.html Events Calendar With the kind permission of LWN.net we are linking to The LWN.net Community Calendar. Quoting the site: This is the LWN.net community event calendar, where we track events of interest to people using and developing Linux and free software. Clicking on individual events will take you to the appropriate web page. Any other business Repairing shows where external files have been lost The further back in time we go with these repairs, the more challenging they become. The most that can be done per day is five, and there have been a few breaks along the way! This is the current repair state: +------------+------------+--------------+------------------+ | date | repairable | repair_count | unrepaired_count | +------------+------------+--------------+------------------+ | 2024-08-28 | 352 | 252 | 100 | +------------+------------+--------------+------------------+

Talking about Software Freedom Day (SFD) on HPR Possible topics Intro Who am I? Who are you? Why this recording? Framing and context What is SFD? How is SFD different from all those other events? Why is SFD important? Practical questions I don't feel confident speaking in public, should I be organizing this? How do I get started? What are possible venues? What's your audience? What activities could I do on a first event? What are the costs I have? Why would I register my event on the website? Topics and content suggestions For every one of these: low hanging fruit? catered to my audience? who?? Talks & presentations Workshops Other types of activities

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Dave Morriss 4154 Thu 2024-07-04 About HPR Ken Fallon 4155 Fri 2024-07-05 GNU sleep tips Deltaray 4156 Mon 2024-07-08 Badger 2040 Kevie 4157 Tue 2024-07-09 Talking with Halla about the past and future of Krita for its 25th birthday Trollercoaster 4158 Wed 2024-07-10 Alexander's Introduction Lochyboy 4159 Thu 2024-07-11 HPR New Years Eve Show 2023 - 24 ep 3 Honkeymagoo 4160 Fri 2024-07-12 Passkeys Ahuka 4161 Mon 2024-07-15 Building a retro gaming console with a Raspberry Pi Kevie 4162 Tue 2024-07-16 HPR music project - Walking tune from Äppelbo Fred Black 4163 Wed 2024-07-17 Reintroducing myself while discussing Samba and tiny computers Al 4164 Thu 2024-07-18 Postgraduate Computing Lee 4165 Fri 2024-07-19 A circle of Moss Ken Fallon 4166 Mon 2024-07-22 Everybody organize Software Freedom Day! Trollercoaster 4167 Tue 2024-07-23 Removing another obstacle to recording an HPR show Beeza 4168 Wed 2024-07-24 Beyond Economic Recovery Trixter 4169 Thu 2024-07-25 HPR New Years Eve Show 2023 - 24 ep 4 Honkeymagoo 4170 Fri 2024-07-26 Playing Civilization III, Part 5 Ahuka 4171 Mon 2024-07-29 Al discusses the renovation of his bathroom Al 4172 Tue 2024-07-30 Re: hpr4072 Piper voice synthesis Archer72 4173 Wed 2024-07-31 Getting my 2015 Macbook Pro back up and running swift110 Comments this month These are comments which have been made during the past month, either to shows released during the month or to past shows. There are 23 comments in total. Past shows There are 3 comments on 2 previous shows: hpr4135 (2024-06-07) "Mining the web" by Cedric De Vroey. Comment 3: hobs on 2024-07-28: "Federated DB of domains?" Comment 4: Cedric on 2024-08-01: "Follow up" hpr4148 (2024-06-26) "Cheap Computers" by Moss Bliss. Comment 2: dnt on 2024-07-24: "Used corporate computers" This month's shows There are 20 comments on 9 of this month's shows: hpr4153 (2024-07-03) "Steading as she goes!" by Dave Morriss. Comment 1: Trey on 2024-07-03: "Wood finishing"Comment 2: Henrik Hemrin on 2024-07-08: "Teleprinter"Comment 3: MrX on 2024-07-08: "Re Wood Finishing"Comment 4: MrX on 2024-07-08: "Re Teleprinter"Comment 5: dnt on 2024-07-24: "Studio C"Comment 6: Dave Morriss on 2024-07-24: "Re: Studio C" hpr4157 (2024-07-09) "Talking with Halla about the past and future of Krita for its 25th birthday" by Trollercoaster. Comment 1: Kevin O'Brien on 2024-07-15: "I loved the show" hpr4158 (2024-07-10) "Alexander's Introduction" by Lochyboy. Comment 1: Henrik Hemrin on 2024-07-10: "Thanks for your first show!"Comment 2: Dave Lee (thelovebug) on 2024-07-11: "Congratulations on your first show"Comment 3: Peter Paterson (SolusSpider) on 2024-07-15: "Excellent Introduction" hpr4162 (2024-07-16) "HPR music project - Walking tune from Äppelbo" by Fred Black. Comment 1: Folky on 2024-07-16: "More information" hpr4165 (2024-07-19) "A circle of Moss" by Ken Fallon. Comment 1: Trey on 2024-07-19: "Wonderful discussion!" hpr4168 (2024-07-24) "Beyond Economic Recovery" by Trixter. Comment 1: Henrik Hemrin on 2024-07-24: "Where in the world and the interest to preserve"Comment 2: Trixter on 2024-07-30: "Reply to Henrik" hpr4169 (2024-07-25) " HPR New Years Eve Show 2023 - 24 ep 4" by Honkeymagoo. Comment 1: Rob on 2024-06-24: "One person talking" hpr4172 (2024-07-30) "Re: hpr4072 Piper voice synthesis" by Archer72. Comment 1: Ken Fallon on 2024-07-24: "Fails on Fedora 40"Comment 2: Archer72 on 2024-07-26: "Re:Fails on Fedora 40"Comment 3: Ken Fallon on 2024-08-01: "More issues"Comment 4: Ken Fallon on 2024-08-02: "It works" hpr4174 (2024-08-01) "Of the Mic and the Mop" by Ken Fallon. Comment 1: Knightwise on 2024-07-31: "Posting on behalf of Knightwise, and with his permission." Mailing List discussions Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This discussion takes place on the Mail List which is open to all HPR listeners and contributors. The discussions are open and available on the HPR server under Mailman. The threaded discussions this month can be found here: https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/pipermail/hpr/2024-July/thread.html Events Calendar With the kind permission of LWN.net we are linking to The LWN.net Community Calendar. Quoting the site: This is the LWN.net community event calendar, where we track events of interest to people using and developing Linux and free software. Clicking on individual events will take you to the appropriate web page. Any other business Repairing shows where external files have been lost A number of HPR shows have "external" files. These are things like pictures, videos, example scripts and configuration files. During the move to the current static site these were not copied over, and the shows on the HPR server have been incomplete since then (the Internet Archive versions are complete however). A process to "repair" these shows has been started. It relies on the fact that there are copies of the lost files on the Internet Archive, and on a backup disk. These are being copied across to the HPR server and linked into shows again. We are restoring the missing parts of shows one at a time. The process is largely automated, but there is still a manual component. We are gradually fully automating it as time allows. We will document the progress here. This is the current repair state: +------------+------------+--------------+------------------+ | date | repairable | repair_count | unrepaired_count | +------------+------------+--------------+------------------+ | 2024-08-01 | 352 | 148 | 204 | +------------+------------+--------------+------------------+ Spectrum24 Conference spectrumconf@mastodon.radio - Remember, the call-for-booths for the #spectrum24 conference is still open: If you are interested in showing of your project to an audience that is just as passionate about radio as you, drop us a mail: info@spectrum-conference.org Check out the list of currently confirmed booths https://spectrum-conference.org/24/booths Spectrum24 is free but, to manage the practicle side of the conference, we do ask you to register: https://ticketplace.ch/?op=booking&id=45 #hamradio #callforbooths

Introduction Event: LibrePlanet Topic: Relaunching Software Freedom Day and the surrounding movement. Editing Note: The recording was edited to remove some visuals. Background Personal Involvement: I have been organizing Software Freedom Day (SFD) in Brussels since 2012. Digital Freedom Foundation (DFF): A nonprofit organization that has gone through various names and legal states. Focuses on celebrating digital freedom through various events. Initially focused on Software Freedom, later expanding to Hardware Freedom and Document Freedom. Briefly included Education Freedom Day and Culture Freedom Day, but resources were limited. History of Software Freedom Day 2004 Origins: Matt Oquist recognized the quality of free software and lamented its obscurity. Collaborated with the OpenCD project to create and distribute CDs containing free software. CDs were distributed to various groups, organizations, and libraries to raise awareness. Importance of Software Freedom Awareness and Advocacy: Emphasis on the importance of making the public aware of the benefits and availability of free software. Efforts to advocate for the use of free software in various domains. Evolution and Challenges Expansion of Focus: The movement expanded from Software Freedom to include Hardware and Document Freedom. Periodic inclusion of Education and Culture Freedom days to address broader aspects of digital freedom. Resource Limitations: Challenges faced due to limited resources, leading to a focus on the most impactful areas. Conclusion Call to Action: Encouragement for individuals and organizations to participate in and support Software Freedom Day. Emphasis on the collective effort required to promote and sustain the movement. Additional Information Contact and Participation: Register your event on the website or keep an eye on the blog for updates or inspiration Join the chat on the Software Freedom Day Matrix channel Follow us on Mastodon

For the occasion of 25 years of Krita and in preparation of Software Freedom Day in September 21st of this year, we wanted to talk with Halla, the lead maintainer of this great project. We asked around and Arnoud stepped up and offered to visit Halla to ask some questions about the project's history and future. The talk is also available as a video on the PeerTube instance of the Digital Freedom Foundation. If you know what Software Freedom Day is, I'm confident that your heart warms up with fond memories. If you don't know what it is, have a look at digitalfreedoms.org/sfd for more info. Basically, it's a grassroots movement from local teams organizing events to tell others about the benefits and importance of software freedom. If you would consider organizing Software Freedom Day where you live, don't hesitate to visit the blog on our site, and get some inspiration for what you could do. With that said, let's listen to the interview between Arnoud and Halla. Enjoy it! Today we're interviewing Halla, who is the lead maintainer of Krita, to learn all about it and to hear where the project has been and where it's going. Halla, to start us off, could you tell us a little bit about what Krita is? Sure. I love telling people about Krita. So Krita is a digital painting application. It's meant to make art from scratch, both still images and animations. So we've got a huge number of brush engines, color spaces for people who need to print and lots of features really focused at creating art from start. For what kind of illustrations would you use Krita? Pretty much everything. I've seen so many different artworks, different styles. People are working on comics in Krita. People are working with illustrations. There are people who design those trade book card with Krita. Games, I mean, whole animated games, like platform games. It's used for all that sort of thing, for everything, in every style, in pretty much every country in the world. Wow. Uh, are there any publications we might know about that have used images created in Krita? There are so many! We got sent a copy of a book on American wild birds. That was entirely done in Krita. Wow, cool. Talk a little bit about yourself. What role did you play in the creation of Krita? This year Krita is 25 years old. Which meant I wasn't there at the absolute beginning. So, in 2003, my parents gave me for my birthday a really small graphics tablet, a Wacom Graphire. And I wanted to use it to draw a map for a fantasy novel I was writing back then. The novel never got finished, because of course I wanted to use Linux as my desktop operating system. And I sort of couldn't get into GIMP, and I started looking around for an application other than GIMP that I could maybe improve or could maybe be good enough. Well, I found Krita. In 2003, it had already gone through three names: KImageShop. That didn't last long. Krayon. That didn't last long either. And it was finally called Krita. It has also gone through three complete rewrites. So when I started working on Krita in 2003, it didn't even have a brush tool. You could open images, add images as layers, and move the layers around. And that was everything. So, it was a really good place to get started. Except, of course, that it turns out that I'm not a genius. I'm not even a computer scientist. I mean, I'm a linguist. And writing a good brush engine is pretty difficult. So, I started blogging about how I was completely failing at creating a nice brush engine. And how is was failing. That turned out to be a turning point for the project because people saw that: "Oh, there's someone working on it, and they're not making any progress, mmm, I will take a look as well." They started getting enthusiastic and pretty soon after 2004, we already had our fourth complete core rewrite. So that's how I got started. So how many people were involved in the Krita community by that time? Mid 2004, it was about a dozen. Krita was still part of KOffice, which was KDE's suite of productivity applications. And KOffice developed that still, because they were porting from one document format to another document format. But suddenly there was an application that we really wanted to release. And that's when KOffice got released again as well. So it's a bit hard to say how many people are actually working on Krita because there were also some people working on the core libraries that every application used, but say a dozen. And can you speak a little bit about how the community evolved since? Yes. Until around 2006, we didn't really have a focus. Krita was a GIMP clone or a Photoshop clone. And, in 2006, David Revoy, a French artist who only uses free software, tried Krita, and he told us it's no good. While we thought we had quite a nice application by then. Afterwards, we started taking this very seriously. So, when we have a sprint, we also invite artists. We actually videotape the artists working with Krita. And that's for the developers a really nice way of getting to know where the bottlenecks are for users. So because we involved artists, our developer community also started to grow. At some point of time, most growth came through Google Summer of Code, but those days are over. That program is not doing a lot anymore. We've only got one student this year. So that started the second phase. Let's make Krita good enough for David Revoy. We also invited Peter Sicking to a print. Peter Sicking is the guy who was involved in defining the mission statement for GIMP. He sat down with us and asked us: "What do you really want to do?" Make Krita good for David Revoy. That's a bit thin as a mission statement. So we came up with we want to make Krita purely a painting application. Sure, there are filters and other stuff, but if it's good for painting, it goes in. So we started working on that and that took quite a long time to get there, especially because we were stupid. We started doing a complete rewrite in 2007 of everything. That was the fifth. So, that continued, everyone was working on Krita as a hobby. Most people were still students, until our Slovak student, Lukáš, was working on his thesis. And his thesis was brush engines for Krita. And of course he got 10 out of 10 because he could show his professors that he had created real software that was used by real people all over the world. And then he was like, okay, I'm almost done with university. What should I do? If you guys can pay my rent, then I can work on Krita full time. If not, I'm going to flip burgers. So I ask him what his rent was. It was like 35 euros a month. So I thought, well, let's do a fundraiser and we can pay you for, say, six months. Six months turned into a year. And after that, Lukas got a job at a different company, but it started sponsored development. And that's been really important for the growth of our community, because by now there are six people working full time on Krita. The second student we hired on graduation was Dmitry Kazakov, a Russian guy, and he's currently our lead developer. So because we're all there, lots of volunteer developers can see that their patches and merge requests get reviewed, they get merged and that makes people happy. So we have a really healthy mix right now of sponsors and volunteer developers. That sounds great. You mentioned sprints a couple of times, can you tell us a little bit more about how that is organized? In theory, we organize one big sprint a year. Of course, it hasn't been possible. Some people have had to flee Russia, for instance. So visa problems are real problems. And the way it mostly used to happen was I would invite everyone to Deventer, have some people sleep upstairs, in our spare bedrooms. And the rest would go to Hotel Royale in Deventer, which has two big rooms on the top floor. Then we'd go down in the cellar of the church. It's a 12th century cellar. Really roomy, and we would just do some hacking, then do a meeting. And in the evenings, we would go out for dinner, and just get to know each other better. One thing that I really miss about sprints, or rather not having sprints, is the time we would spend in my study over there. Just, just a couple of us. The rest would be hacking around. And we would try to just go through the list of bug reports. And for us, sprints are fun. We also invite developers, artists, documentation writers. Yeah, that sounds like a lot of fun. So, if a new contributor would like to join Krita, what would be the typical on ramps that they could come into? It used to be that people would mostly join us on IRC. Nowadays, we also have Matrix, because building Krita from scratch is not easy. But we've got a great manual for that by now. So either people join us on IRC and ask for help building Krita, and then maybe ask, do you know a nice bug or feature ish that I could start working on? And then we, we'd help them with that. But these days it's mostly people who out of the blue, post a merge request on KDE's GitLab instance. And then we're "Oh, this person from Serbia, this person from Denmark, they have suddenly have a really nice patch!" And sometimes a patch needs to be improved. Sometimes it can go in as is. And then we try to get them, in our chat channel, because that's still the place where we have most development discussions. And the mailing list is almost dead, but that holds for many mailing lists. After that, once you've got three merge requests in Krita, merged into Krita, we will ask you: "Do you want to have a developer account, so you can review other people's work, merge it, get full access to everything?" And sometimes they are "Yes, I've always wanted that", and sometimes "I'm not really comfortable with that, I just want to send you more patches", and that's fine. Sounds great. In terms of features, are there any particular features of Krita that you're particularly proud of, or that sets Krita apart from other drawing programs? Over the years, we had a number of firsts. Like, before Adobe even knew that OpenGL existed, we had a hardware accelerated canvas implementation. Then, about the same year, I think it was 2005, we implemented support for all kinds of color models. Like CMYK, LAB, also painterly color models. That's stuff that tries to mix spectral wavelengths to simulate the way paint mixes. That feature is out because it never worked well enough. Then we got, I think, a really nice way of doing animations. Of course the brush engines are great. Oh, and this is something that almost nobody knows, but we support painting in HDR. So color values lower than zero and bigger than one, fully dynamic. And the way we work with those images is compatible with the way Blender imports images. So, you mentioned Blender, are there any other products that Krita works particularly well with, or that are nice complements to Krita? Scribus. Scribus is a desktop publishing application, it's also free software. Development is a bit slow at the moment, but it's really solid. We used it for our 2006, I think it was 2006, Krita art book, for instance. And Inkscape of course, as well. Krita does have vector layers, and they are quite advanced, but still Inkscape is a really good complement. Krita and Inkscape are the only applications that currently implement the W3C mesh gradient standard. Cool, and in terms of current development, which features are you most excited about which are coming up? What's coming up is the port of Qt6, new version of our development library. That's going to really eat development time. But again, we've got some volunteers who already started working on that. I'm not sure I'm really excited about it, but, but we have to investigate it. We are looking into AI assisted inking. So you would train Krita on the way you would normally ink your sketches. And then Krita should be able to semi-automatically ink your sketches for you. Because for many artists inking is a bit of a boring step, because when you're doing inking, you're often really, really careful. And that means that the lines are a bit, often a bit deader compared to the sketch, um, Trying to use AI to assist with that is something we are investigating. We are working on that together with Intel because Intel is one of our corporate sponsors. But we are also doing all kinds of projects with Intel. Like, Intel also worked with us on that HDR feature, for instance. Oh, and text. That's, that's important as well. Volterra has been working on that. The text shape and the text tool, like the object that contains text on canvas and the tool that modifies it are of course two different projects. This will implement full SVG to text including CSS, ligatures, font features and everything. And she's already implemented it. And the text shape itself, it can do vertical text, like for Chinese or Japanese. It can do Ruby, which is the furigana, the small, text that in Japanese you put next to the kanji, the Chinese derived characters, so you know how to pronounce them. And she's now working on the UI, and, and it's something we've wanted to start working on, uh, years ago already, I think it was 2017. Actually, I was working on that, but then I was distracted by the Dutch tax office which wanted to have money. And I had to do difficult stuff and hire accountants and so on. And it's not easy being a manager. So that's the two big things that are coming, hopefully: The experimental assisted inking an a super deluxe text tool. Cool. So what does your release schedule look like? Do you have set dates or is it ready when it's ready? Ready when it's ready, but it's often ready. If our infrastructure is working correctly, then we typically do a bugfix release every two months. There have been years when we did one every month, but that was just eating up too much of our time. We try to have one or two full feature releases a year as well. Of course, we moved from Jenkins as our binary factory platform to GitLab CI. And that means we haven't been able to do a release for six months because so many bits needed fixing, bits were broken. The whole pipeline had to be rewritten. But that's done now. So we just released 5.2.3 beta 1. And we hope to do the 5.3 pretty soon, which is a bug fix release. And 5.3 will be a feature release again. I think we've got almost enough features in there. We're only waiting for the text tool to be completed. That sounds great. In terms of, uh, volunteers, are there any areas that you would really appreciate someone helping out and looking into things? Android experts, because our Android expert started at a very difficult university and doesn't have any spare time anymore. And Android is, is a difficult platform. Platform itself, the libraries, it changes all the time. We do have a UX designer, Scott Petrovic, but more help there would also be welcome. And for the rest, it's actually mostly not what we wish to be done, but what volunteers wish to do and most work is welcome. Sounds great. On the topic of platforms, which platforms does Krita support right now? That's Linux. We prefer our own binary builds in AppImage format because we have to patch a lot of the libraries that Krita depends on. Windows, MacOS, Android. If and when iPadOS gets opened up, we might port to iOS. But both for iOS and Android, Oh, we also support Chrome OS, but that's Android. For iPadOS and Android, so tablet form factor, we really want to optimize our user interface for touch and for that we need to have the port to Qt6 done. So that's going to take some time. Sounds like there's a lot of exciting things coming. I think that's all I have for you today. So I'd like to really thank you for taking the time to speak to us. It was a pleasure. Um, is there any things we haven't covered that you would like to, uh, talk about? Oh, I want to brag a bit. Go for it. Because we have about 7 million users. That's quite a lot. I mean, I used to do commercial software development. And most of the companies we worked for never ever released. So that makes it so much more fun to work on. Yeah, that's genuinely amazing. Awesome. Thank you very much. Thank you, too.

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