Andy Fitzsimon

Check out my favourite open source desktop environment:

Its been a pleasure using Rawhide this time around.. still glad to be back and stable

Over the past weeks I’ve been using rawhide (or fedora 9) on a eeepc, macbook air and inspiron 9300.. I’m certainly impressed with the setup this release has given me.

My personal highlights are: inkscape .46, firefox3, openjdk & the encrypted filesystem awesomeness ( which i dont use on the MBA or EEE for flash reasons.. actually i upgraded to rawhide from eeedora so they would use ext2 but thats another story )

Fedora 9 here we come!

From rejon’s post:

We are trying to raise USD$ 20,000 in the next 16 days before Friday, April 18th in order to support the conference and travel from so many Free and Open Source software developers to attend the 3rd Annual Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) conference in Wroc?aw, Poland May 8 - 11 - the premiere event bringing together free and open source creative software application developers for a productive international conference (emphasis on productivity!).

This is really a big community drive for all you users, supporters, and companies to donate money so that all us free and open source developers may get together to have a productive face to face meeting. The last two LGM’s have been invaluable to coordinate, consolidate and create the future in a free and open source way.

For the next 16 days, we want all the supporting projects to put a note about this pledge drive right on their front page of their website! You can use the badge below as well to help us raise money!

You can also help by spreading the url to our pledgie campaign: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/613

And, don’t forget to digg this story: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Support_the_Libre_Graphics_Meeting_2008

More from the Pledgie.com page:

What is the Libre Graphics Meeting?

The Libre Graphics Meeting brings together developers and users of free software graphics applications, such as the GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender, Krita, the Open Clipart Library and more.

In its third edition, the organization needs your help! You can support your favorite graphics application, and ensure that the travel costs of as many volunteer developers as possible are paid to ensure that this edition of the conference is more successful that its predecessors.

Where will the money go?

We have kept costs associated with infrastructure to a minimum. Over 80% of the conference budget will be spent on subsidizing travel and accommodation costs for developers.

A non-profit organization

All donations will be made to the conference organizers via the GNOME Foundation, a 501(c)3 tax exempt US-based non-profit, so donations will be tax deductible for US taxpayers. We would like to thank the GNOME Foundation for their support.

take a peek at something new:

svn co http://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/documentation-devel/

.. more later

source update later

Let the flood of remixing begin!

I haven’t quite kept up to date on this blog, but since Ive now registered andyfitz.org .net and .com.au I figured its time to put a little more online.
Actually, some photography fella has the .com but hopefully I can beat his googlejuice.

For those that have been wondering here’s whats new with Andy:

• I attended Libre Graphics Meeting(my 2nd x-mas) in Montreal
• I then visited Red Hat HQ in Raleigh (also did some traveling around the trip)
• Yesterday I became a member of the GNOME Foundation. Thank you jdub and thos
• I’ve been doing some long late night skates from my place and around the city
• I’ve taken up yoga at jwulf’s awesome atmayoga on Albert St
• I’ve gotten camping and festival tickets for splendour in the grass
• Started helping with the Brisbane bid for LCA2009 / LGM2009
• I also plan to leave my beautiful Australia for a 1-2 year period of time. more news on that later

Forgot to mention.
A while back I got called up for an aussie round-table on FOSS Graphic design for a podcast.

you can directly download: MP3 OGG

Costume party on the weekend and the host actually put a video of me on youtube. scandal.

For those still confused.
To everyone’s time I wasted I’m sorry. I’m sure thats all of you.

Do you publish PDF’s of marketing collateral showcasing free software?

I’ve noticed that not everyone eats their own dogfood!..
and There are some unlikely offenders.

There are plenty of ways to generate quality materials from free software. Below are some properties screens that let you know the creator cares about FOSS.

People dont just pay for propietary software with the price tag. You pay for it by looking like a dweeb who uses another platform to the one they promote:

The final irony here being that I took those screenshots in the linux version of acroread.

I test with acroread because printers render with the same output.
For everything else there’s poppler with evince