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Today is the Day Against DRM

We always dedicate a few pages to document useful and free-culture oriented resources in every issue of the Libre Graphics magazine. Today, we join the Day Against DRM initiative by making a short selection of some DRM-free resources we use … Continue reading

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SVG or: How we learned to stop worrying and love document freedom

SVG was one of the brightest revelations when we switched to libre design tools; in fact, it’s one of the major reasons that made us switch from the Adobe toolchain we learned in college to a 100% F/LOSS workflow for … Continue reading

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Mini Debian Women Conference 2014

This weekend we’ll be participating in the MiniDeb Conference at Barcelona. Two days of talks, discussions, the celebration of the Tenth anniversary of Debian Women and PGP Keysigning among other fun things. Be sure to check the full schedule, register … Continue reading

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Call for submissions: Libre Graphics Magazine 2.3

Since our first issue, back in 2010, Libre Graphics Magazine has paid close attention to fonts and type — after all, they are basic ingredients of any magazine, since the Sumerian clay tablets hit the streets of Uruk. In the … Continue reading

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Out now: Libre Graphics magazine issue 2.2, Gendering F/LOSS

We’re very pleased to announce the release of issue 2.2 of Libre Graphics magazine. This issue, built around the theme “Gendering F/LOSS,” engages with discussions around representation and gendered work in Free/Libre Open Source Software and Free Culture. We invite … Continue reading

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We’re at FOSDEM

Come say hello and browse our latest issue, Gendering F/LOSS. Our stand is at building K, group C, side by side with the Mozilla and the Open Street Map stands. This year we have the full editorial team and columnist Antonio … Continue reading

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Issue 2.2 is out

Nearly three years ago, in a brainstorming meeting about future issues, we decided that we needed to write about gender. We opted not to do it straight away. There were other subjects to take care of first, and we wanted … Continue reading

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Gendering F/LOSS: Issue 2.2 call for submissions

Art and gender have a long history together. From ancient Greek sculptures of ideal men to renaissance nudes, visions of what it is to be a man or woman have been with us for about as long as we’ve been … Continue reading

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F/LOSS workflows for grassroots publications, MozFest 2012

The third edition of the Mozilla Festival is happening next week in London, from the 9th to the 11th of November. We participated in the very first edition, in 2010, while we were still preparing the first issue of Libre … Continue reading

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This week we’re in Brussels: the Libre Graphics magazine Camp

Last Saturday me, ginger and Ricardo arrived in Brussels for a week long residency at Constant Variable. After a year and a half of long distant communication we felt the need to meet in person, to prepare the second year … Continue reading

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