Category: Blog

  • Fedora Romania and OSOM

    This 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

    The 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

    Scenario: 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

    Today 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

      I 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

    Two 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

    Last 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

    In 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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  • Different RSS feeds in the same WordPress blog

    Recently I joined the Mozilla Reps program where there is http://planet.mozillareps.org/ which an aggregator for all Mozilla Rep’s blogs. In addition as a Fedora Contributor my blog posts show up in the http://planet.fedoraproject.org which is a Fedora contributor’s aggregator as well. The issue I had is that some of my blog posts are referred to the…

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  • Python meeting in Thessaloniki

    Αυτή 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…

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