Category: Free/Open-Source software
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PulseAudio 2.0 + Empathy = awesome
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for months. You may remember me being a fan of SFLphone. Well, turns out that for the past year, I’ve been using only Empathy to do my VoIP calls. All you need to do is install telepathy-rakia to have SIP support (and then you can use Ctrl+M to start…
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Reducing our core apps' software inventory
In my free time, I try to help other open source projects get rid of accumulated weight from the years. At GUADEC 2012, I told the Epiphany devs that the 3.x series (with its new design direction/vision and the gradually improving WebKitGTK backend) would be the perfect opportunity to close massive amounts of old bug…
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GUADEC talk video published
No no no, I said video, Not videos. Seems like even though I spent hours editing and rendering a single recording, I’ve still beat the GUADEC organizers when it comes to “time to publish” 😉 My “neko edit” also has good sound quality (from a dedicated USB microphone) and high resolution versions of the slides…
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Staring into the Axis' Abyss: the Railgun map
This blog post will not be picked up by the usual news sites. News sites don’t care about positive things, it is much more interesting to talk about impending doom. Don’t get me wrong, it is quite healthy and necessary to talk about these things, but it is also an opportunity for haters to come…
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La photo d'identité démocratisée grâce à Wilber
Dans le cadre d’un formulaire de routine, j’ai dû fournir une photo d’identité «style passeport». Or, j’en ai marre de me faire arnaquer, de payer cher pour une photo qui sera inévitablement moche. Les photos prises «par un professionnel» n’ont rien de professionnelles lorsque Passeport Canada accepte les photos prises par les préposés de pharmacies!…
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Break the kettles and sink the boats
This is it. The “ges” branch of Pitivi has been merged to “master”. The changes that have been merged are quite significant: over four hundred commits, 175 files changed, 13943 insertions and 30341 deletions (net result: more than 16 thousand lines of code removed while at the same time adding features and solving longstanding bugs). While “master” is…
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PiTiVi GES spring sitrep
Now that the Internet is back to normal, here’s a status update on what I’ve been busy doing lately. You may remember my initial donation experiment last month where I presented the new realtime trimming preview feature—I was not kidding. It’s merged in the pitivi “ges” development branch now, with some additional improvements tacked on.…
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GSoC 2012 and PiTiVi
Are you a student who wants to get involved in shaping the future of open source video editing? Are you looking for a friendly project providing stimulating challenges and a well-established codebase and expertise? Then consider applying for the Summer of Code programme to work on Pitivi or GES! See this page for the list…
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Switching PiTiVi's main git repository
Due to public demand, the official main repository for PiTiVi is now git.gnome.org/pitivi instead of git://git.pitivi.org/git/pitivi.git This has many advantages: It reduces confusion. It prevents potential contributors from thinking we’re a dead project or something. We’re a killer project, that’s completely different. No need to manage two “official” repositories (one for development and one for translations)…
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Le SSD du pauvre
Un de mes amis possède encore son netbook Dell Mini 9. Or, il y a un an ou deux, le SSD bon marché à l’intérieur a rendu l’âme (même le BIOS voit le disque dur comme étant de capacité 0 MB). J’avais entretenu l’idée de ressusciter cet ordinateur pour un usage de serveur ou «media…