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Sonoj Convention 2023 has opened registration!
If you're into FOSS and making noise - that's a great event to meet like-minded people, learn new tools, make friends and memories that last decades :)

https://sonoj.org/

I've attended 3 Sonoj events in the past, and - if my health wasn't what it currently is - I'd be going to this one as well.

Entry is free, but registration is needed (limited space).
Where? Cologne, Germany!

#Sonoj #SonojConvention #Sonoj2023 #FOSS #Audio #MusicProduction

Most folks I know who are worried about AI aren’t worried about these programs becoming self aware and oppressing us. That’s not a thing. We’re worried about all the ways these systems will ramp up existing inequalities and further obliterate our shared reality as human beings. That’s already happening.

🚨We’re standing up for the digital rights of all libraries today in court! Happening now: the Southern District of New York is hearing oral argument in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the lawsuit against our library. Here’s how you can help us defend the rights of libraries & readers:

✊Join the online rally: https://www.battleforlibraries.com/ @team
🗣Join the live blog: https://controlleddigitallending.org/2023/03/20/hachette-v-ia-liveblog/
🔗Sign up for updates: https://empoweringlibraries.org/get-involved/
#EmpoweringLibraries

Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam."

This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s, via @fietsprofessor.

The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today.

Better choices instead of excuses.

#cities #cars #bikes #Holland #Dutch #city

Because @bandcamp is so important to the future of music, so are its workers' efforts to form a union via @bandcampunited Bandcamp in general has been fair & equitable to artists, let's support efforts to make it the same for workers
https://www.bandcampunited.org/

Many FOSS projects would do with organizing themselves into non-profits, but there's not much information about how much work it is or how it's done. So I interviewed @yorikvanhavre about @FreeCADNews Project Association for @LWN. The post will be out of the paywall in two weeks

https://lwn.net/Articles/924953/

Weekly recap is out! Week highlights: new releases of @GIMP and @godotengine, new features in @krita and @inkscape, recent resurrection of IndigoUI for Scribus

Details: https://librearts.org/2023/03/week-recap-5-mar-2023/

Featured #krita artwork by Sad_Tea

#LibrePlanet 2023 speaker Aaron Wolf @wolftune will explain how you can introduce your child to computers and software freedom with plain old command-line programming basics. See the full schedule and register: https://u.fsf.org/3ww

There are many reasons to use a split keyboard, but this is without a doubt the most important one.

New weekly recap is out! Highlights: text layout revamp landed to @krita, new releases of @ardour, Yoshimi, @kicad, Glaxnimate, CAD Sketcher for Blender

Details: https://librearts.org/2023/02/week-recap-19-feb-2023/

Featured #b3d and #gimp artwork by Jorge Jimenez

We have just released Ardour 7.3 with support for VST3 I/O busses, sample rate independence, searchable preferences, AVX-512 support in DSP, and more improvements and new features, as well as bugfixes

Release notes: https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

accidentally wrote "saad" instead of "saas" in a text to my partner; they immediately coined "Software as a Disappointment"

and honestly, where is the lie

Weekly recap is out! Highlights: new version of CadQuery, new features coming to @krita, @inkscape,
@kdenlive, and
Olive

Details: https://librearts.org/2023/02/week-recap-12-feb-2023/

Featured #krita illustration by
Philipp Urlich

If you are looking for open-source sampled instruments to use in your music, here's a great repository:
https://sfzinstruments.github.io/

They use the SFZ format which is the best way to make sampled instruments. It's open-source, easy to edit (all based on text + audio files) and well documented.

To use these instruments in Ardour or other DAWs I'd recommend the open-source plug-in sfizz:

https://sfz.tools/sfizz/

More about the SFZ format here:
https://sfzformat.com/

#MusicProduction #FOSS

For those asking, "How can I help with Arch Linux?"

https://whatcanidofor.archlinux.org/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://whatcanidofor.archlinux.org/

#archlinux #linux #unix

Weekly recap is out! Highlights: new features in @GIMP, @inkscape, @penpot, @ardour, new painting application Our Paint (with nodes for brushes!)

Details: https://librearts.org/2023/02/week-recap-5-feb-2023/

Featured #b3d artwork by Nick Nathanson and ultimately by Etienne-Louis Boullée :)