Alexandre Prokoudine @prokoudine@mastodon.social

Receiving a photo of RMS as a meme in a chat now feels like... "Oh... kay, I'm sure you mean well" :)

I'm cleaning up my backlog, and this is one of the interviews I initiated in the springtime.

The actual story is really fascinating. The original thread at linux.org.ru started with people grumbling about Guitarix and Rakarrack.

It then escalated into writing and testing actual software now available for everyone (for a few months already, in fact). Clearly, not your average turn of events and something we as community could do a lot more with :)

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/oleg-kapitonov-on-tubeamp-free-guitar-amp-simulator-for-linux

There haven't been many news in the digital photography department this past week, and I think I'll focus on animation stuff (Synfig, Pencil 2D) the next time.

I'm really curious how much direct Lua support in @GIMP is going to affect it. And JavaScript could be a real game-changer. We'll see.

For @krita, it looks like version 4.3.0 is shaping up into a very interesting release (too early to talk about it though, I guess).

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/week-recap-19-august-2019

Featured artwork by Gesy Bekeye.

One of the fun (no, not fun) cultural differences between US/Europe and Russia is that Russians don't use the word "please" nearly as much as the other guys.

One guideline on translating software into Russian I once read literally said this: "Drop the word 'please' when translating from English into Russian. It is not culturally accepted. You do not ask, you instruct".

That's why I think this idea for a sudo alias is hilarious, and I've just done it :)

https://twitter.com/kathyra_/status/1160812366293901314

Episode 1 of LibreArts podcast is out and features an interview with the @krita team that I did in early June at LGM.

https://soundcloud.com/librearts/episode-1-krita-team-interview

There's one caveat: I have no Apple devices in my household and I don't live in a country supported by either Google Podcasts or Spotify. That means three aggregation options are out of question for now (VPN isn't helpful either). But I'm really new to this and I'm probably missing something.

Please let me know what you think about the podcast!

New week recap is out. Highlights: great new features in @GIMP, @krita, and RawTherapee, new digiKam release, better sculpting tools coming to Blender 2.81, GSoC project in Pitivi bringing better UI and features, Ardour devs improving regions workflow.

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/week-recap-12-august-2019

Featured artwork by Jakob Scheidt.

Watching free software adding support for raw fles from my new camera for the first time since 2005. That's how often I replace my gear :)

Back with a week recap, this time — a mix of recent and not so recent yet important events and releases.

Highlights: tons of exciting news in the Blender department, Natron is back, GIMP 3 progress is strong, Krita devs are working hard on bugfixes for v4.2.x series and new stuff for v4.3.0, MyPaint has a new active contributor, Ardour's development is still mostly under-the-hood (until after v6.0 release).

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/week-recap-4-august-2019

Featured image by Ozant Liuky, made with Inkscape.

I've just realized I've had this laptop for almost a year now, and I didn't have FontForge on it. Fix coming right up! :)