Editorials

GSoC 2023 projects have been announced

What's coming for GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, Blender, FreeCAD, MuseScore

2023 in preview

What's coming this year across the entire stack of free software for creatives

JUCE7 delivers LV2 and ARA support

The new version finally makes it up to the LV2 community

Introducing CLAP 1.0, open-source audio/MIDI plugins API

This pet project by one of Bitwig's developers is going places

Looking back at 2021, looking forward at 2022

A journey across the multiverse of free/libre tools for creative professionals

The audacity of privacy

Let's have a level-headed conversation about Audacity

Ultimate Guitar launches Muse Group and acquires Audacity

The famous free/libre audio editor will stay free/libre

Libre Graphics Meeting, why it matters

It's a month and a half till the beginning of one of the most exciting events in the free software world, Libre Graphics Meeting 2010

re-lab project is announced

We are glad to announce a new project called re-lab that focuses on reverse-engineering.

RIP Igor Novikov

In memoriam of sK1 project founder and friend

This is 2021: what's coming in free/libre software

A look across the full spectrum of digital content creation software

Sunsetting Libre Graphics World, introducing Libre Arts

It is done

RIP Bill Morrow

The Cinelerra community is mourning the loss of W.P. Morrow aka Good Guy

Using non-free tools for the good of FOSS

While I do owe you quite a few weeklies by now, I'm using this Friday afternoon as an opportunity to talk about something important.

Remembering Peter Linnell

Earlier this year, in March, we lost the co-founder of Scribus to cancer. And it's something I want to talk about.

2018 in perspective

Let's see what this year is bringing us

GIMP is 20 Years Old, What’s Next?

This week, GIMP celebrates its 20th anniversary

Anatomy of SourceForge/GIMP controversy

SourceForge is taking another self-inflicted reputation hit

Document Freedom Day and missing interoperability opportunities

On March 27, Free Software Foundation Europe was celebrating information accessibility and raising awareness of open standards by running Document Freedom Day. But how well does free software perform there?

LibreCAD vs. QCAD, the war of forks that never happened

Andrew Mustun of Ribbonsoft says he's likely to postpone the release of QCAD Community Edition. The reason? LibreCAD.

Freeing FreeHand. The story of grief, revenge, and refusal

How design freebies cause cancer and eat babies

Have you ever heard horror stories, how free design assets from teh interwebz should be avoided at all costs? Is that real or made-up?

sK1 development restarted

We aren't silent, we are busy!

What’s up with free multimedia production tools in 2010

It's about time to draw a line between 2010 and 2011 and have a look at what was happening to the multimedia production stack of free apps this year.