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LibrePlanet workshop 1

Due to the number of talks, at this years LibrePlanet conference, planned, it was decided that workshops should take place post conference. The first workshop, takes place on 2nd May 2022.

Free Software and Hardware

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LibreOffice Documentation – 14/4/2022

Documentation update(s)

LibreOffice 7.3 guides (Published)

  • Writer 7.3
  • Getting Started 7.3
  • Custom shape tutorial 7

PUBLISHED 7.2 All guides now fully published

  • Getting Started 7.2
  • Writer 7.2
  • Calc 7.2
  • Impress 7.2
  • Draw 7.2
  • Math 7.2
  • Base 7.2

REFERENCES

1 LibreOffice 2 LibreOffice Bookshelf 2a LibreOffice Documentation * LibreOffice shortcut keys 3 Free Software Foundation 4 Free Software Foundation Europe 5 LibreOffice Conference 6 7.2 blog documentation announcement 7. Udemy LibreOffice Training

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#YearOfTheFediverse,#LibreOffice,#Office,#Writer,#Calc, #Draw,#GettingStarted,#Documentation

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LibreOffice 7.3

LO 7.3

Version 7.3 of the Free, Libre, Open Source office suite is now available. You can read more about this here.

Documentation for 7.3 will be available shortly, in the meantime you can still download books for 7.1 & 7.2.

For those of you who dismiss LibreOffice. This is from the blog post.

LibreOffice offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite market segment, starting with native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) – beating proprietary formats in the areas of security and robustness – to superior support for DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files. In addition, LibreOffice provides filters for a large number of legacy document formats, to return ownership and control to users.

Microsoft files are still based on the proprietary format deprecated by ISO in 2008, and not on the ISO approved standard, so they hide a large amount of artificial complexity. This causes handling issues with LibreOffice, which defaults to a true open standard format (the OpenDocument Format).

New Features Video

LO 7.2 install on Debian 11

*This worked for me, please use common sense and think before you do stuff, I am not responsible for damage to your system**

I have now downloaded and installed LibreOffice 7.2 on Debian 11.

  1. Goto https://www.libreoffice.org/
  2. Click Download Now
  3. For Debian 11, I selected the 7.2 deb file from the options
  4. LibreOffice7.2.5Linuxx86-64deb.tar.gz Save or move this to a sensible location, so maybe create a sub folder in downloads called Libreoffice
  5. Extract the gz file – this should be unzip *.gz
  6. Extract the tar file this should be tar -xf *.tar
  7. cd in to LibreOffice7.2.5.2Linuxx86-64deb 7a type ls to list files (for me I had 42 deb files)
  8. Goto a terminal
  9. Switch to root, with su - and enter password
  10. You will probably need to check working directory pwd
  11. cd to where your deb files are
  12. dpkg -i *.deb
  13. This should install everything
  14. You will find Libreoffice 7.2 on the menu (I am using xfce)

As always Your Mileage May Vary

Note, the LibreOffice 7.2 menu entries will be BELOW those for the previos install, my video here illustrates how to use menu editor to move them above the previous version.

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Effect of long term space flight on the Brain

Study explores effects of extended spaceflight on brain

Scientists from the U.S., Europe and Russia are part of a team releasing the results of a large collaborative study involving the effects of long duration spaceflight on the brain.

Page citation : Medical University of South Carolina. “Study explores effects of extended spaceflight on brain.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 12 April 2022. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220412141100.htm

Positive note: Despite the current situation in Ukraine, those involved in science can still carry on working and collaborating, for the benefit of everyone.

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#YearOfTheFediverse,#FediverseRising,#Science,#Technology,#ScienceDaily,#PaigtonLibrarySTEMGroup,#Fedevolution2022

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Learning the R statistical language

During a recent conversation, with a member of a job seeking buddy group that I am a member of, we had a brief chat about the R programming language. This is designed and optimised to help with statistics, allows graphs to be produced from data and also integrates with other software such as LaTeX, Python and more.

Learning R is probably not difficult, the hardest part with learning something is finding the right resources to help. To this end I have found a collated a few links below.

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OTHER

The Links below could be useful generally if you are going to be running R on a GNU/Linux system then knowledge of the command line may be useful. I have also included a link to the study support forum.

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#Statistics,#R,#Language,#Data,#Analysis

Code Club 16/4/2022

The next Club will be on Saturday 16th April 2022 @ Paignton Library. Please contact the library to book.

We will carry on with what we were doing last session and at the STEM group, hopefully do more with the Lego WeDo and Python, hopefully more scratch projects, physical computing depending on who can make it to the session.

If you are following the activities provided by code club, please use the website link below, this will hopefully avoid issues with the existing materials that are written for Scratch 2.0

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#CodeClub,#FreeCodeCamp,#Microbit,#Scratch,#Python,#WebDesign, #Lego,#Coding,#Education,#LookingForWork,#LegoWeDo,#Replit

Please contact Paignton Library.

Next week is: No code club 23rd April 30th April is the 5th Saturday, I have booked in an additional session. Next Code Club – 7th May

Torbay Trojans vs Somerset Wyverns (A)

Our First away game of the 2022 American BritBall Season.

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#Trojans,#Football,#BAFA,#SomersetWyverns,#TorbayTrojans

Fixtures

Fixtures 2022 10/4 – Bristol – Home 17/4 – Somerset – Away 15/5 – Bristol – Home 29/5 – Cornwall – Away 5/6 – Somerset – Home 17/7 – Bristol – Away 24/7 – Somerset – Home 7/8 – Cornwall – Away

How to Generate References with LaTeX (BibTeX)

How to Generate References with LaTeX (BibTeX)

Another LaTeX video, this time relating to creating a bibliography. This isn't using Overleaf, however the principle is similar. The Overleaf example file has a built in Bibliography example. I have found a video that covers this, so please see the second video below.

There are adverts every so often, but you can just skip these.

Video 1 LaTeX and BibTeX

Video 2 Overleaf and BibTeX

Writing

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#Writing,#Laboratory,#Lab,#Reports,#Overleaf,#LaTeX,#Video,#Youtube

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Improve your academic writing with Writefull.

Improve your academic writing with Writefull.

Writefull, is a really useful extension to overleaf, that helps you improve your writing. It is designed to be integrated in to Overleaf, so complements really well. From experience, this works in Chrome but I am not sure if there is a specific plug-in for Firefox.

The narrator does seem to be talking rather fast, which makes it harder to follow. I did use the Youtube settings to slow down the speed to 0.75, which sort of improved this. To be fair, I am not sure if the narrators first language is English, so that may account for the speed he is talking. But it is not a barrier to watching the video, once slowed down, or even at normal speed.

There are adverts every so often, but you can just skip these.

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Writing

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Sense about Science

The internet is a fantastic source of information, sadly not all of this is accurate, or even true. A good way to ensure you can trust informationis to ask for evidence. Sense about science, have a video on this. This goes along side their campaign.

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#AskForEvidence,#SenseAboutScience