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Fedora Romania and OSOM
Read more: Fedora Romania and OSOMThis February was an amazing month full with awesome events regarding Free and Open Source software. In the mid of the month I was invited in Bucharest in order to have a session in OSOM conference. OSOM (awesome) is the annual meet up/conference of the Romanian FOSS communities and projects. This year there were re-presenters…
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FOSDEM 2013 – review
Read more: FOSDEM 2013 – reviewThe first weekend of February of every year is always dedicated to FOSS Developers Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels. FOSDEM is always a great opportunity to meet all my old Fedora and Mozilla friends from around the world. Unfortunately I didn’t get in time in Brussels in order to attend Fedora community’s dinner but I met…
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Install fonts in Linux
Read more: Install fonts in LinuxScenario: You just downloaded some cool fonts and you want to use them on your presentation at LibreOffice Presentation. The fonts are some *.ttf files and you don’t know how to use them or where to put them. Solution: Create a folder named “.fonts” in your home directory and place the files in there. It…
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Invert colours in PDF files
Read more: Invert colours in PDF filesToday I faced to following problem. I wanted to print an ugly presentation which was stored in a PDF file. And I say ugly because the background was bright blue and the font of the text, yellow! Printing this beauty in a printer will definitely empty all the ink in the first 10 pages. That’s…
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Three weeks, three awesome events, one goal
Read more: Three weeks, three awesome events, one goalI am really excited about this blog post! The upcoming weeks are going to be extremely awesome, regarding the two FOSS projects I am mostly involved in Fedora and Mozilla. Athens Firefox OS App Days By time order, this Saturday is the Athens Firefox OS App Day which is sold out from the previous…
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Open Source and Research – talk, review
Read more: Open Source and Research – talk, reviewTwo weeks ago – 27/11/2012 – , along with two great FOSS contributors shared a session in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece regarding “Open Source and Research“. The event was organized by the society of the post graduate department of physics and math of the Aristotle University. Kostas Koudaras – OpenSUSE contributor –…
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Thessaloniki’s Python meeting v0.1
Read more: Thessaloniki’s Python meeting v0.1Last week we stepped out from the Greek Python mailing list in order go meet and get know each other. Despite the awful weather and the cold, we managed to meet 10 people (BEAT THAT ATHENS – with two female people), know each other and discuss geeky staff. It was a great meeting and we…
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The UnConference 2012 – awesomeness review
Read more: The UnConference 2012 – awesomeness reviewIn 14 of November in Thessaloniki took place the first UnConference. The UnConference was the highlight of a three day festival around Thessaloniki’s public children libraries. The hole festival organized by the non profit company FutureLibrary.gr which intends to change the idea of children libraries by making over almost every children library in Greece. The…
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Python meeting in Thessaloniki
Read more: Python meeting in ThessalonikiΑυτή την Κυριακή 2 Δεκεμβρίου και ώρα 19:00 στο καφέ Άλφα, μαζευόμαστε όλοι οι φίλοι της Python. Αρχάριοι και μη, φίλοι και γνωστοί, σε όσους μας αρέσει και παίζουμε με την Python, βγαίνουμε από τις mailing list, αφήνουμε τα λάπτοπ σπίτι και μαζευόμαστε να γνωριστούμε, να συζητήσουμε και να οργανωθούμε. 😉 Απαραίτητη προϋπόθεση το geek…