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Status update, July 2023 - Cookbook and more

This is my first attempt at a monthly update. Let's see how regular I will be...

Cookbook project

I created a cookbook for a wedding, collecting recipes from all the guests. I made extensive use of free software:

• Simple.css to style a landing page, explaining the concept and inviting the guests to upload recipes
• Nextcloud to provide an upload-only folder to collect the recipes
• Scribus to create the PDF (special shout out to the Python API, see below)
• Synfig to create a flip book animation in the bottom right corner of the book
• Inkscape to prepare the objects for the aforementioned animation

=> Simple.css (CSS framework) | Nextcloud (hosting files) | Scribus (publishing software) | Synfig (vector-based 2D animation software) | Inkscape (vector graphics editor)

I didn't have any prior experience with Scribus or Synfig, but I was able to get started with them quite efficiently.

The part I enjoyed the most, was the flipbook animation in the bottom right corner. After planning and counting the frames for a short animation on paper, I modeled it in Synfig. I then exported all the frames as PNG files (animation.####.png).

Thanks to the scripting capabilities of Scribus (and the documentation found online), I wrote a short program to ensure that each page had an image frame linked to the correct file (so that I could quickly update the animation if I moved some pages around or tweaked the flipbook).

I mainly (mis)used the object attributes (which also allowed me to automatically update 2 tables of contents for the different meal types).

=> Scribus Python script for flipbook and Table Of Content generation

Forgejo NLNet Grant

I applied for an NLNet Grant with other Forgejo contributors, which was awarded. The Memorandum of Understanding was finalized, to be able to receive the funds at some point.

=> NLNet Grant process on Codeberg

Gophercon EU

I went to Gophercon in Berlin. It was quite interesting, but also very "enterprisey". I think that my current focus is more the hope of building a "free software copyleft sharing world" than an "everything is a business opportunity world". Maybe I should try to go to dedicated FOSS conferences instead.

Scouting

I am a more or less active scout leader in Germany (DPSG), and in June we had our annual camp as well as a 24-hour mountain hike. Lots of (exhausting) outdoor fun!

=> Föhnsturm (in German)

📅 2023-07-25

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