Linux-Voice-Issue-001

WELCOME
Friends, geeks, hackers
The April issue
Linux Voice is different.
Linux Voice is special.
Here’s why…
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At the end of each financial
year we’ll give 50% of our profits
to a selection of organisations
that support free software,
decided by a vote among our
readers (that’s you).
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No later than nine months after
first publicaton, we will relicense
all of our content under the
Creative Commons CC-BY-SA
licence, so that old content can
still be useful, and can live on even
after the magazine has come off
the shelves.
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We’re a small company, so we
don’t have a board of directors or
a bunch of shareholders in the City
of London to keep happy. The only
people that matter to us are the
readers (you again).
GRAHAM MORRISON
A free software advocate
and writer since the late
1990s, Graham is a lapsed
KDE contributor and author
of the Meeq MIDI step
sequencer.
As I write this, it’s a sunny Saturday morning and I’m sitting
in the kitchen. The issue is 90% finished and we’ve got eight
hours until the PDFs need to be at the printers. We’re used
to crunch times like this. Stacey is adding the barcode to the cover.
Andrew is working his magic. Mike is organising our online store
while Ben polishes the new website. It has been sometimes difficult,
sometimes challenging but always absolutely wonderful. We’ve
created the magazine we always wanted to create, which we hope
best represents the Linux and Free Software communities.
Which is why there’s no better place to start than with a
celebration of the very best that Free Software has to offer. For
our cover feature, (p38), we chose 51 of the most awesome
projects, but we could have chosen hundreds. The extent of
open source penetration is staggering, and it’s only going to
become increasingly influential. The next few years will be the
most exciting and revolutionary yet – all of us at Linux Voice
can’t wait to start making our own modest contribution.
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THE LINUX VOICE TEAM
Editor Graham Morrison
graham@linuxvoice.com
Deputy editor Andrew Gregory
andrew@linuxvoice.com
Technical editor Ben Everard
ben@linuxvoice.com
Editor at large Mike Saunders
mike@linuxvoice.com
Malign puppetmaster Nick Veitch
nick@linuxvoice.com
Creative director Stacey Black
stacey@linuxvoice.com
Editorial contributors:
Mark Crutch, Liam Dawe,
Juliet Kemp, John Lane,
Vincent Mealing, Simon Phipps,
Jonathan Roberts,
Mayank Sharma
Graham Morrison
Editor, Linux Voice
What’s hot in LV#001
ANDREW GREGORY
She doesn’t get the credit she
deserves, so it’s an honour to have
a tutorial on Ada Lovelace’s work
with the Analytical Engine. p88
BEN EVERARD
For me, it’s the delicious fusion of
hardware hacking, the Raspbery
Pi and quiet inebriation promised
by Graham’s BrewPi guide. p76
MIKE SAUNDERS
FOSDEM: so many passionate,
inventive and inspiring geeks
under one roof recharged my
passion for Free Software. p30
www.linuxvoice.com
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