TeX Live Road Map
Posting this, for anyone interested in the 2021 TeXLive Roadmap to release.
TeX Live is intended to be a straightforward way to get up and running with the TeX document production system. It provides a comprehensive TeX system with binaries for most flavors of Unix, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and also Windows. It includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free software, including support for many languages around the world. Many operating systems provide it via their own distributions.
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Plan for TeX Live 2021:
15feb: candidate/final sources committed, test builds begin.
28feb: tlnet (and TL'20) frozen, tlpretest starts, CTAN updates continue there.
15mar: code freeze for final build, major bug fixes only.
27mar: final updates from CTAN, final doc tweaks.
29mar: deliver TL image for TeX Collection packaging/testing.
5apr: deliver TeX Collection DVD image for manufacturing.
10apr: public release (also of MacTeX).
June?: delivery of DVDs to members.
#texlive,#latex,#roadmap,release2021,#ctan,#typesetting,
#packages,#install,#mactex,#windows,#linux,#document,
#creation
Remote education
With the current Covd19 crisis in the UK, getting worse (again), Areas entering tier 4, (highest lockdown), Schools are closing and in some cases using remote education.
This brings up the prospect of them using non free tools, that when it comes to privacy may not be as private as first thought.
There is a really good article here on the GNU website, that explains the problem.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation have an event coming up on privacy on campus
It would be great if there could now be a big push to promote free and open source tools, to help level up education, and actually safeguard children, young people and adults from data harvesting etc.
So what, free, open source and privacy / rights respecting remote tools can we use for teaching?
I am now involved in an effort to take the digital skills framework (UK) and look at how we can achieve this using free and open source software. This project can be found on Codeberg
#education,#privacy,#safeguarding,#data,#children,
#youngpeople,#adults,#skills,#freesoftware,#dataprotection,#safeguarding,#freedom.
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At Home (and On Campus) with EFF
January 7, 2021 – 12:00pm to 1:30pm PST
Twitch
Join the EFF for a talk on Privacy
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges have rushed to adopt new practices and new technologies —sometimes creating a serious threat to the civil liberties of students and workers on campus. Join EFF for a live streamed video discussion about how mandated COVID apps can compromise our security and privacy, while undermining trust in the efforts of public health workers.
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#eff,#privacy,#college,#campus,#talk,#event
Cuttlefish Peertube client
Cuttlefish is a GNOME client for the Decentralised video sharing platform Peertube.
Looks good and a very welcome edition.
This project is hosted on GitLab
Link to my post from earlier today
#gitlab
#PeerTube
#GNOME
Data Detox
This is a really useful website, with tools and advice on how to stay safe.
Everyday steps you can take to control your digital privacy, security, and wellbeing in ways that feel right to you.
#privacy,#security,#wellbeing,#digital,#internet
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Contribute to f-droid
This was originally shared on Mastodon, so am sharing here for any one else who may be interested.
- F-droid is looking for project contributors. There is a good article here with some more information.
The contribution page is also here
Looks like lots of opportunities to get involved. If you are interested you can also get in touch with IzzyOnDroid.
You can join Mastodon here then connect with IssyOnDroid and ask how to get involved.
I am on Mastodon here
#freesoftware,#fdroid,#contribution,#foss,#repository,
#android
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Mastodon – Text Description
In mastodon after uploading an image you can click edit and add a text description to help persons with eyesight problem find out what the image is.
This is an excellent accessibility feature.
On 31/12/2020, I reported an issue with this feature. This is currently under investigation.
On a related note, there is a really nice promotional video for Mastodon.
My Mastodon sign up blog post is here
#mastodon,#accessibility,#picture,#description.
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MiniDebConf Online Thailand 1-4th January 2021
MiniDebConf Online Thailand 1-4th January 2021
https://wiki.debian.org/MiniDebConf
Beach Hut Article – Jan 2021
The LibrePlanet article, I submitted to the Beach Hut, which is a local community magazine here in Paignton has been published in the January 2021 edition.
It can be found on page 32. Please click here for a link to the latest digital edition.
#magazine,#publication,#beachhut,#article,#libreplanet