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I love you about $35 000 dollars worth

That’s my best guess at just how much free labour has gone into Libre Graphics magazine since the end of August. Why the math? Because right now, I’m working on our application for the Canada Council for the Arts Literary … Continue reading

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The heritage of our pixels

Eric Schrijver has come up with what is quite possibly my favourite headline yet: “The heritage of our pixels.” Look out for his latest column, by that name, in issue 1.2 of Libre Graphics magazine. In the mean time, here’s … Continue reading

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Libre Graphics magazine on Linux Outlaws

Guess what? At FOSDEM, I sat down (or, more accurately, leaned against a wall) for an interview with Fab and Dan, the Linux Outlaws. Now, the FOSDEM edition of the Linux Outlaws podcast is out! It’s got a couple pretty … Continue reading

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Look! Over there! git!

Have you looked at the right hand side of this blog lately? You may have noticed, beneath the Flattr button and the tag cloud, something new. It’s not only new, but exciting, too. It’s an RSS feed of our git … Continue reading

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Gendered pronouns

Right now, I’m in the thick of some pretty serious editing. In fact, I’m working on tidying up a feature for issue 1.2. However, in that tidying, I got to noticing something. When constructing a sentence describing the actions or … Continue reading

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HCI researchers looking thoughtful

There was a time, maybe two weeks ago, when I was taken by the idea that many of the photos computer science researchers use to represent themselves are posed with the subject leaning forward. I thought of this phenomenon as … Continue reading

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By the way, see you at FOSDEM

Guess what? I, one of your ever enterprising editors, will be at FOSDEM in Brussels this weekend spreading some Libre Graphics magazine joy. In fact, I’ll be doing a lightning talk called “Libre Graphics Magazine: Bringing F/LOSS Designers Together, One … Continue reading

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Today is a great day to donate

Why? Because today is the day we close books on the finances for issue 1.1. We’ve sold quite a few magazines (but not nearly all of them) and have received some generous donations. But all the money we’ve raised still … Continue reading

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Let’s look at 1.2

It’s January and things are getting pretty exciting. We’ve gotten lots of great submissions for issue 1.2, Use Cases and Affordances. It’s looking pretty great so far. We’ll be featuring some of our usual suspects, as well as people and … Continue reading

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Let’s talk about cash part 1: the basics

We’ve put out a magazine. We’re working on putting out another one, and to keep on putting them out every three months for the foreseeable future. In the run-up to issue 1.1, we blogged and made public lots of details … Continue reading

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