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Annonces, WordPress

Ajout de Libravatar sur mes sites WordPress

Après quelques semaines de tests, j’ai décidé d’ajouter les fonctionalités offertes par l’extension WordPress Libravatar à mes sites.

Libravatar est un service qui fournit votre avatar (photo de profil) à d’autres sites. Si vous créez un compte avec nous, votre photo pourrait commencer à apparaître à côté des messages du forum ou blog des commentaires sur n’importe quel site où vous avez laissé votre adresse courriel.libravatarCe service est proposé par par un logiciel sous licence libre (AGPL) et permet aux propriétaires d’un nom de domaine d’héberger leur propre instance de Libravatar.

Pour en savoir plus sur les services web autonomes et leur relation avec les logiciels libres, je vous propose quelques pistes:

 
Ubuntu, Ubuntu Planet, Debian, Annonces, Communautaire, GNU/Linux

Debian Quebec is here :)

As many of you already know by now, Debian 7 is here!

I’ve been using Debian as my primary work environment for a few months now and Trisquel at home for the past year and a half or so. My advocacy work has changed as a result, and I stopped focusing on Ubuntu, while still recommending version 12.04 LTS that just works for many. There’s also Ubuntu Gnome (or is it Gnome Ubuntu) now, so there is still a good array of choices for those like me that like the GNOME 3 environment and find it productive. Oh, did I mention Cinnamon 1.8 was just released?

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I am happy to announce that there is now a Debian Quebec group, and we just got our mailing list approved in the Debian project. This was not as fast an easy as in Ubuntu-land, and I took the time to fully document the process to get the mailing list going, in case others may want to do the same. It may all seem too slow or difficult, but every step of the way several people helped and I learned a lot. I took this as an opportunity to contribute to the project and at the same time I found that it may be hard for new GNU/Linux users to get started in Debian – or even for experienced ones like me, coming from Ubuntu.

That’s why after a few IRC messages I started working on a Welcome to Debian resource (and team) aimed at people that use other distributions and come to Debian for the first time. It’s still very new and incomplete, but it’s what I wished was around when I started dedicating serious time to this distribution a few months ago.

As luck would have it, Debian 7 was just around the corner, just a few days/weeks after Ubuntu 13.04 and Trisquel 6 were released. This called for an all-distributions Debian 7 release party (we’ll have two locations, Montreal and Quebec City). There will be workshops and presentations from 12:30 to 5:30 PM and then a happy hour with CLibre and Libre Planet. Check the Agenda du Libre if you’re in Montreal this week (or any time soon), perhaps we can cross paths.

 
Annonces

24 mai: 5@7 ASTUS – 24e promotion de finissants en informatique de l’Université de Sherbrooke

JF Yelle invite:

Rencontre printannière des anciens de la promotion Astus.
On va prendre la bière, simplement… à l’Amère à boire, le 24 mai 2013 prochain à compter de 16h.

Assurez-vous de bien vous inscrire et de nous signifier votre présence. Si les inscriptions sont suffisantes, nous pourrons offrir des petites bouchées à un prix modique. toutefois, il sera toujours possible de manger sur place.

Si vous utilisez LinkedIn est que vous faites partie de cette promotion (ASTUS), vous pouvez vous inscrire sur le groupe.

Je crois que si vous étiez dans les JESUS, MILLENUS, MAXIMUS, SPARTACUS et autres qui nous ont cottoyé vous êtes aussi les bienvenu(e)! 🙂

Vous pouvez aussi m’écrire si vous préférez ne pas utiliser Facebook, je ferais suivre à JF.

 
Ubuntu Planet, Ubuntu, Annonces, Trisquel, GNU/Linux

Trisquel 5.5 is here – loaded with Freedom and that « classic » feeling

Trisquel GNU/Linux is a Linux distribution using a free version of the Linux kernel as distributed by the Linux-libre project. The main goals of the project are the production of a fully free software (free as in free speech) system that must be easy to use, complete, and with good language support. (from Wikipedia).

Trisquel 5.5 is an Ubuntu derivative based on Ubuntu 11.10 and was released on Monday. I discovered Trisquel through the Free Software Foundation, which distributes it on a nice wallet-USB key to all new members. Trisquel 6.0 will be based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

I started using it as my main OS at home last year (with version 5.0) when the numerous changes brought with Unity, problems with accessibility and increasing UI regressions prompted me to explore other options. As I’ve been choosing my new hardware and peripherals to be supported with free software, there wasn’t any transition or adjustments needed. Even some PPAs I used (notably, LibreOffice) are fully compatible. To my surprise, several fellow Ubuntu users also already knew about it and have been experimenting with it. So if you’re in a similar situation, I’d encourage you to download and try Trisquel some time.

With Ubuntu 12.04 LTS there has been some improvement to get a good fallback mode but I rely on too many things that used to be there and « just work » like multi-monitor support, applets, directory encryption at user creation, etc. and I kept removing non-free features I don’t use like Ubuntu One. I’ve found it’s actually less effort than I thought to push the IT freedom mindset a bit further, use a derivative that chooses a conservative path (even remaining ~6 months behind current Ubuntu releases) and I am learning a lot from Trisquel’s helpful community – particularly hardware! That’s in no small part thanks to Christopher Waid from ThinkPenguin.

Even being a commercial support services customer at Canonical during the last year wasn’t enough to work around some issues. It’s still a great way to bring attention to important issues when you know how to report bugs and can follow-up tightly on such reports. My current job doesn’t leave much time for experimentation and bug-reporting, but I still used 12.04 LTS both at home and at work as my main environments during alpha an beta. Although there are good intentions to help the « old timers », I can’t be always afford such experimentation, and exploring ways to get closer the « 100% free software » experience also means taking the challenge of exploring other options.