FOSSMeet 2020
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Mujeeb Rahman k
@mujeebcpy
Media Self-reliance and FOSS
Submitted Mar 4, 2020
The story of how newspaper organisation in Kerala( Janayugom) completely switched their work flow to FOSS including pre press works and accountings. Building a Kubuntu based custom distro Janayugom GNU/ Linux as their main OS and Scribus for layouting purpose.
Moving from proprietary software to Gimp, Inkscape, Krita, Libre office, etc for their other needs. The talk is about the journey of migration, the challenges and the results.
in FSF Newsletter - https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2019/december
Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21504721
Tweets From kde - https://twitter.com/kdecommunity/status/1193876244414312448
Outline
- How The journey started
- Migration plan
- Problems
- Importance of FOSS
- intial trials
- Distro based on Gnu/Linux
- Training
- Media Summit on Self-Reliant publishing by Kerala Media Academy
- Future of FOSS in Media
Requirements
Projector, HDMI Cable, Internet connection, Wireless Microphones, Power Supply
Speaker bio
Mujeeb Rahman is managing partner and co-founder of alphafork. he is a full stack web developer, Android Developer and python expert.Speaker about malayalam computing, unicode, django framework, running a blog and youtube channel based on FOSS
Links
- gitlab - https://gitlab.com/mujeebcpy/
- blog - https://ibcomputing.com/
- youtube - http://youtube.com/ibcomputing
- indiaos - https://indiaos.in/talks/foss-experience-at-janayugom
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