{"id":2574,"date":"2024-01-23T02:10:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T23:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T14:42:09","slug":"open-source-software-tools-i-used-while-preparing-for-creative-freedom-summit-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/?p=2574","title":{"rendered":"Open source software tools I used while preparing for Creative Freedom Summit 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week I will be presenting at the Creative Freedom Summit 2014.  In case you don\u2019t already know about it, the <a href=\"https:\/\/creativefreedomsummit.com\">Creative Freedom Summit <\/a>is a virtual conference dedicated solely to the features and benefits of Open Source creative tools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My talk at this open source summit will be focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/jambulatv.com\">JambulaTV<\/a>, a smart home hub I built using only Free\/Libre open source software (FLOSS) tools. You can read the details of what my talk is about at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/creativefreedomsummit2024.sched.com\/event\/1Xzv4\/using-fedora-linux-to-create-a-private-and-locally-based-smart-home-hub\">https:\/\/creativefreedomsummit2024.sched.com\/event\/1Xzv4\/using-fedora-linux-to-create-a-private-and-locally-based-smart-home-hub<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To prepare for my presentation, and in the spirit of open source software, I exclusively used the following open source tools:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LibreOffice Impress:<\/strong> Used to create the slide show<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LibreOffice Impress is part of the LibreOffice suite and is used to create powerful and nice looking slide shows for presentations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/discover\/impress\/\">https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/discover\/impress<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>OBS Studio:<\/strong> Used to record the video session<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OBS Studio is a free and open-source, cross-platform screen-casting and streaming app. It is available and packaged for nearly all the major Linux distributions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/obsproject.com\/\">https:\/\/obsproject.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GIMP:<\/strong> Used to create or edit the graphics used in the slide show<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>GNU Image Manipulation Program, commonly known by its acronym GIMP, is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\">https:\/\/www.gimp.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FFMpeg:<\/strong> Used to clean up the audio\/video output file<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ffmpeg.org\/\">https:\/\/ffmpeg.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J<strong>itsi:  <\/strong>To remotely connect with the summit hosts for the virtual presentation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jitsi is a free and open-source multiplatform voice, video conferencing and instant messaging applications for the Web platform, Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jitsi.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/jitsi.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I will be presenting at the Creative Freedom Summit 2014. 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